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

[Stefano Tortarolo]

2010/1/11 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>

> On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 15:00 +0100, Stefano Tortarolo wrote:
> > 2010/1/4 Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com>
> >         I picked 'port' only because I couldn't think of anything
> >         better and
> >         'transplant' was already taken.
> >
> > Pierre Asselin mailed me to suggest 'graft'. Matt?
>
> I considered that. This makes sense in analogy with skin grafts and
> such, but when talking about tree-like things, 'grafting' generally
> involves cutting off entire stems and attaching them to another plant
> (like what rebase does). So I think this name is misleading.
>
> How about 'adapt'?
>
> Note that all of this is less about selecting which changesets to work
> on ('cherrypicking') and focusing more on what we do with them ('adapt
> or port or transplant them from one branch to another').
>

Yes, you're right obviously. It's just that for non-English speakers this
might be not so intuitive.
However, I like 'adapt'.
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