New "graft" command vs. "transplant"

Alexander Drozdov dzal_mail at mtu-net.ru
Tue Nov 1 22:39:35 CDT 2011


Are there plans to add log message filters support to graft command, like --filter or at least --log in transplant?

We always add "(transplanted from branch <branchname> revision <rev>)" line to transplanted changesets.

02.11.2011 07:31, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 22:58 -0400, Scott Palmer wrote:
>> The release notes for Mercurial 2.0 mention the new graft command stating that it is "similar to [the] transplant extension".
>>
>> I'm assuming that it is it considered preferable to the (disabled by
>> default) transplant extension, but could somebody explain the
>> differences and why I would choose one over the other?
>
> Graft uses Mercurial's merge machinery, while transplant uses patching
> under the hood.
>


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