I committed to the wrong branch?

WARNING: This does modify local history

Using Mercurial and committed to the wrong branch locally? Have no fear. You can very carefully graft then strip your commit to produce a clean history.

First get the revision number of your commit (-l5 is to limit the number of log entries:

hg log -b <branch you committed to mistakenly> -l5

Now basically this sequence:

hg update <branch you wanted> 
hg graft -r <commit revision>
# resolve and commit merge if needed
hg strip -r <original commit revision>

I would highly recommend doing the strip in a GUI tool to help visualize what you are stripping out. Also if you have multiple revisions you need to copy over then you can specify multiple -r <revision> arguments to the graft command. Only your root commit will need to be stripped, but strip removes everything after that commit. You can pull any in between changes (if you were pull/merging as you went along) just fine.

Remember the most important part is that all the work is on a local branch. Once you push commits out you need to use something else such as backout to undo your mistaken commits.