How to move some changeset to a new branch in mercurial

Question

I want to move a changeset from one branch to another. Basically, I currently have:

A -> B -> C -> D # default branch

And I want:<

Answer 1

One way is to export a patch for B,C,D; update to A; branch; apply patch:

hg export -o patch B C D
hg update A
hg branch branchname
hg import patch

To remove B,C,D from the default branch, use the mq extension's strip command.