merging selected revisions from one branch on another in Mercurial

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Published on 2010-04-02T16:43:32Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 16:53 UTC
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Is it possible to merge a range of revisions from one branch to another in Mercurial?

e.g.

|r1
|r2
|r3
|\___
|    | r5
|    | r6
|    | r7
|    | ...
|    | r40
|r41

If I want to merge revisions 6 & 7, but not 5, into the main branch - is this possible?

What about multiple selected revision ranges from branch A to branch B? e.g. merge 4-7, 20-25 and 30-34?

(this isn't a real case, just an illustration. I'm trying to understand if hg has this revision-range merge feature that I know svn has)

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