Pulling into a branch

Arne Babenhauserheide arne_bab at web.de
Tue Nov 11 17:16:33 CST 2008


Am Dienstag 11 November 2008 22:25:39 schrieb Ben Hood:
> I tried this and it worked on a simple use case. What worries me a
> little bit is this comment in the help file for the hg export command:
>
> NOTE: export may generate unexpected diff output for merge changesets,
>     as it will compare the merge changeset against its first parent only.
>
> Does this mean that I would lose the least common ancestor if I
> started to export patches?

It could well happen - I didn't test this much but rather tried it as a proof 
of concept. 

Please check the transplant example from Jilles Tjoelker. It is far cleaner 
(and faster - I just tried it). 

Best wishes, 
Arne
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