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On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:21:44 -0400 |
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Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 04/10/2016 05:36 PM, Gordon Pettey wrote: |
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> > Or you could just use a branching workflow like Git has great |
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> > support for, and create your overlay as a branch of the main tree |
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> > you're copying ebuilds from. With recent versions, you can even |
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> > have checkouts of different branches from the same tree in |
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> > different directories, so you're not duplicating the the whole |
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> > repository. Then you could just git diff from the master branch, |
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> > and no need for preserving CVS misbehavior. |
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> I suggested this on the bug, but it's not so clear-cut. With a branch, |
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> you have a million other ebuilds sitting around in "your overlay" that |
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> you don't care about. I'm also not sure how the metadata updates would |
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> work; like, if it would be efficient to pull the rsync metadata and |
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> then run `emerge --metadata` or something like that. It wouldn't be |
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> fair to say "just use a branch!" if that's going to mean that |
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> somebody's day-to-day work gets a lot slower. |
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Would a sparse checkout help here? I've used this feature in a |
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different context. You could add the packages you do care about to the |
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sparse checkout list. |
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/600079/is-there-any-way-to-clone-a-git-repositorys-sub-directory-only/13738951#13738951 |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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