Re: Joining Repositories

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:23:03PM CET, I got a letter
where Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said that...
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Ryan Anderson wrote:
> > merging with the old repositories should, at least theoretically, work, 
> > etc.
> 
> No. This - and the history rewriting - both have a fundamental problem: it 
> becomes totally impossible to merge back any changes of the subprojects, 
> at least automatically. The renaming just ends up making pretty much any 
> merge a manual affair (git can _help_, but it's going to be a matter of 
> luck if it works or not - and it usually won't work very well, because 
> you'll probably end up having files that have the same name in the new and 
> the old repo, and eventually you'll just have tons of confusion).

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).

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