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Git's patching functionality is pretty awful in actual practice. For example, try building a git patch that applies a standard set of patches between two divergent (vendored) kernel trees. It's usually a mess. It's also pretty easy to find a set of patches that have to be applied in order. Then someone copies those patches onto another divergent tree, which has it's own set of custom patches without renaming. This is…
I think patching/cherry-picking is just inherently complicated and needs intelligence applied. I don't think Pijul is going to be any better here.
That is kind of the point of Pijul, first class support for "how do I combine these" which git mostly discards as unimportant.
But for a lot of work at scale (or people) mixing bits is important.