On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 08:26:58PM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> William Hubbs posted on Thu, 31 May 2012 14:54:50 -0500 as excerpted:
> 
> I don't know what's going to happen to all the overlays with the main 
> tree switch to git, but won't that break various "overlay first" 
> policies, say for the kde overlay?
> 
> Of course, if all the official overlays are converted to git branches of 
> the main tree... but won't they still require rebasing as they've already 
> been pushed?  (This assumes your workaround idea doesn't work.  If it 
> does, great!)

Overlays aren't really part of this discussion; those are independent
trees which we have no control over, so commiting changes from overlays
to the main tree is the responsibility of the overlay maintainers.

William