[PATCH 2 of 2] rebase: add --cherrypick to cherrypick single revisions

[Stefano Tortarolo]

2009/12/31 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>:
> On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 02:50 +0100, Stefano Tortarolo wrote:
>> # HG changeset patch
>> # User Stefano Tortarolo <stefano.tortarolo at gmail.com>
>> # Date 1262222630 -3600
>> # Node ID 4643de06fb4d42ea22055d42ce9ff46762f30555
>> # Parent  fcedd4d4282f33be5f86cd3a311bf937fe07528e
>> rebase: add --cherrypick to cherrypick single revisions
>>
>> Using the idea behind --detach, rebase can now 'copy' single revisions from
>> a branch to another one.
>> Basically, it ignores every changeset up to the requested one, by means of null
>> merges, and then rebases just the specified changeset.
>
> Nice. This is different enough from normal rebasing that it probably
> wants a separate command under the same extension. Something like:
>
> hg port --dest stable A B C:D

Yes, my intention was to get some feedbacks and then propose a separate command.
Just one question: why 'port'?

> Note that this is similar enough to transplant that it should probably
> do transplant's trick of recording the source revision in extra.

Yes, if i'm not wrong rebase already does the same thing.

I'll resend an improved version asap.
Thanks Matt.

Stefano