Best practices for merging

[Harvey Chapman]

On May 26, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Kevin Bullock wrote:

> On May 26, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Peter Bourgon wrote:
> 
>> The transplant extension allows you to "copy" a committed changeset
>> from one branch to another in this way.
> 
> ...but is totally unnecessary. Seriously, just merge. This is what merging is for. This ain't Subversion. Merge.

Isn't transplant more suited for when you incorrectly fix a bug in the middle of a feature branch and therefore can't safely merge?