Re: RFC: HOWTO: Cherrypicking patches from "xemacs"

Michael Sperber writes: > I think these problems mostly occur when you pull patches you've > previously transplanted, which I don't think is likely to occur in this > setting, i.e. temporary cherry-picked branches. (I manage Scheme 48 > releases exclusively using "hg transplant", and it works great.) True, *if* people follow my directions to the letter and use branches. But actually, I think it is quite likely to occur in this use case, because "what comes naturally" looks like this: hg clone xemacs-beta cd xemacs-beta ./configure; make; src/xemacs & # several days pass hg transplant -s $URLFORXEMACS gotta-have-this-patch ./configure; make; src/xemacs & # more days pass hg pull -u ==> We're sorry, this pull cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and merge your pull again. Maybe it could be presented more accurately (less dramatically?).