On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 22:00 +0200, Michael Osipov wrote:
> Am 2017-05-10 um 21:54 schrieb Oleg Kalnichevski:
> > On Wed, 2017-05-10 at 21:45 +0200, Michael Osipov wrote:
> > > 
> > > This will a problem anyway because all paths change (package
> > > names,
> > > etc.). Hopefully Git's similarity algorithm can detect this.
> > > 
> > 
> > No, it is not. Git is that great. It always amazes me how
> > intelligent
> > Git when it comes to merging stuff.
> 
> That's awesome, I had to do this once on a project and provided a 
> similarity key and voila -- it worked. Git tracks content, not files 
> like Subversion.
> 
> But your answer is contrary to your previous statement -- cherry-
> picking 
> shouldn't be a fuzz with two different repos. Can you explain why?
> 

My understanding is that cherry picking is not possible if remote
branches do not share the same commit history. If they do, they might
as well be branches in the same repository. 

Oleg

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