[Python-Dev] Backport troubles with mercurial

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> Also, it's not really necessary for everyone to merge every change from
> maintenance to trunk: a) they can do multiple commits on the same
> subject and merge once, and b) if the change is small and no problems can
> be expected from merging, merging can also be done by others, just like
> the mass merging we had once from trunk -> py3k (just more convenient for
> the one doing the merge).

But you can't use Mercurial's merge functionality for that, right?
You have to use some kind of transplant/cherry-picking to merge from the
3.3 branch to the 3.2 branch, right?

Regards,
Martin