Graft vs. Transplant

Question

The release announcement for Mercurial 2.0 mentions a new graft command, which on first sight looks similar to the transplant extension. Wh

Answer 1

Graft uses Mercurial internal merging, while transplant relies on patch mechanism. Therefore graft should be able to handle three-way-merges better than transplant currently does.

Answer 2

From the documentation of hg graft it looks like opposite to the transplant extension graft only handles branches within the same repository but can't handle different repositories.