File by file merge

Screw this "treat the whole repository as a single thing".

To disentangle a thrash, I am copying files one or two at a ti,me from a thrashing branch to a new branch.

Something like

     hg update -r careful-branch
     hg revert -r thrashing-branch file1.cpp file1.h
     ...
     hg ci -m 'file1.cpp/.h merged from careful-branch'


Basically doing a file by file merge.

It sucks that Mercurial does not record this as a merge.  Doesn't show up in the graphical diagram drawn by glog.  I'd like some sort of dotted line.

Hmm : could track workflow - what files remain to be merged.   Even on a diff chunk by chunk basis:

merge this chunk ; reject this chunk; defer until next pass.