mercurial - 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. What is the difference between these two? Does cherry picking with graft solve any problems that existed with transplant, and if so, what are these?

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.