Re: Joining Repositories

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: 2006-01-19 04:33:21
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

> Well, the recursive merge strategy is at least advertised to be able to
> merge across renames (as long as they are autodetected). Not that I
> would have any practical experiences with it and I don't know how smart
> is it done (if it just runs rename detection between the merge base and
> current head, yes, that might not give very good results in this case).

If I understand and remember the code correctly, it is based on
rename detection between two heads.  When the versions have
diverged greatly beyond recognition, obviously this would not
work well.


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