Re: Joining Repositories

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] 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.