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On 30/04/06, Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:50:45AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> > While we're posting useful links, here's another one from the cairo |
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> > project on switching from CVS to some distributed SCM: |
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> All this talk about switching to a more powerful SCM I can understand |
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> - but what would the purpose of switching the portage tree to a |
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> distributed SCM be? |
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The main purpose that comes to mind is to help the groups working in |
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overlays (layman -L shows 28 current overlays; there may be more). It |
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should enable easier merging of trees, local tree management, sharing |
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experimental changes between devs without commiting to the main tree, |
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while still retaining the possibility of easily pushing changes back |
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to the main gentoo tree. |
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