hg record and merge does not work (was: anti-dummy merge cherry pick from one commit of different branch)

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:

   > Hi

   > The question is this: Could I force to pop up a merging tool (again say
   > meld) which just would show me all the changes of the collaborator's
   > branch, so that I could cherry pick what I like?


The following comes close to what I am looking for, alas it does not
work


hg init
echo Main1 > main.txt
hg add main.txt
hg commit -m "Main1"
echo Main2 >> main.txt
hg commit -m "Main2"
echo Main3 >> main.txt
hg commit -m "Main3"
hg branch feature
echo Feature1 >> main.txt
hg commit -m "Feature1"
echo Feature2 >> main.txt
hg commit -m "Feature2"
hg up default
hg merge
hg record
hg commit --interactively

Now I obtain
abort: cannot partially commit a merge (use "hg commit" instead)

The documentation states it is not possible. But is there a similar
command which would do this?

Uwe Brauer