Exchange changesets of mercurial between repositories/branches
There are several ways to exchange changesets of mercurial between repositories (branches).
- hg bundle/unbundle
- hg export/import
- hg transplant extension
Just like an offline hg pull/update, which means you could not apply the changesets from another repository if they do not share the same changesets.
hg export -o changesets/patch%r REV1:REV2. It could work for the repositories that does not share the same changesets (repositories may come from different ancestors), but it does not work so well for merged revisions (the changesets have multiple parents). Even with --switch-parent option, you still need to manually edit the patch to eliminate the additional parent declaration in comments.So far the best solution, though I still met a problem when transplanting a specific merged revision (for other merged revisions, it worked smoothly). So I use
hg cat -r REV to output the relevant files, copy them to the new repository and commit. Then skip the specific revision.
