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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: axs@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass, git-2.eclass... git-r1.eclass?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:37:10
Message-Id: 20130828153707.08062cb6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass, git-2.eclass... git-r1.eclass? by Ian Stakenvicius
1 Dnia 2013-08-28, o godz. 09:01:54
2 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> napisał(a):
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7 > On 28/08/13 07:30 AM, Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov wrote:
8 > >> 4. Kill EGIT_MASTER (it's more trouble than benefit),
9 > >
10 > > Only if EGIT_BRANCH will stay on it's place.
11 > >
12 >
13 > ..and work as well as EGIT_MASTER. I've had issues at times trying to
14 > get the branch checkout I wanted via setting EGIT_BRANCH, while
15 > setting it via EGIT_MASTER "just worked". Never looked into why.
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17 And never cared enough to report a bug, did you?
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19 > Also, please ensure that there is a way to override the branch
20 > checkout on the command line (ie, if EGIT_MASTER is unset in the
21 > ebuild, using EGIT_MASTER="branch" emerge =foo-9999 is a nice way to
22 > test something that hasn't been merged into master yet).
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24 There's ${PN}_LIVE_BRANCH variable that is designed exactly for that.
25 I'd honestly kill it as well but I guess it won't hurt me much if it is
26 left as-is.
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28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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