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On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:23 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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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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Hrm. Don't we get that benefit only if the overlays switch over to |
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using the same distributed VCS that the main tree moves to? |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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http://blog.stuartherbert.com/ |
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