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> And yes, it is *very* unlikely that someone uses a slotted live ebuild |
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> with two branches being meaningful and managed in the same repo. Even |
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> if such thing exists, it is broken anyway because you can't say that |
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> re-fetching the branches back and forth is a correct solution. And it |
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> breaks existing tools anyway. |
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This is done large-scale for all KDE ebuilds (in the KDE overlay) to support |
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master and KDE/4.x stable branch. Most use git, so no problem; some (still) |
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use subversion but will be migrated upstream soon(?). |
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Other examples are libreoffice (main tree, git) and cups (main tree, |
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subversion). |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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kde, sci, arm, tex, printing |
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