When I work in a Mercurial local workspace, to fix one bug or add a new feature, I'd like to track my modifications in versioning way, so I did local check-ins on every milestone. While when I push the changes to parent workspace, all the changesets (even some trivial changes, e.g., fixing typo:$) will be saved to parent workspace.

I once used the most stupid way, having two local copies, one is for development, another one is for pushing to parent. Then I found one tip to concatenate multiple changesets into one changeset, but it still needs an extra clone. Finally, I met the MQ extension.

Refer to the tutorial, you would find it's really close to what you want.

Here I list the most important tips:

hg qinit -c

hg qdelete -r qbase:qtip

hg qpop -a
hg pull -u
hg qpush -a