diff -r 88609cfa3745 -r 9960b6369e7f mercurial/commands.py
--- a/mercurial/commands.py	Wed Jan 27 09:07:28 2016 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/commands.py	Sat Jan 30 18:00:11 2016 +0900
@@ -598,6 +598,8 @@
 def _dobackout(ui, repo, node=None, rev=None, **opts):
     if opts.get('commit') and opts.get('no_commit'):
         raise error.Abort(_("cannot use --commit with --no-commit"))
+    if opts.get('merge') and opts.get('no_commit'):
+        raise error.Abort(_("cannot use --merge with --no-commit"))
 
     if rev and node:
         raise error.Abort(_("please specify just one revision"))