Gentoo Archives: gentoo-scm

From: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: gentoo-scm@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-scm] Help?
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 07:44:33
Message-Id: 20081107070141.GA19622@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-scm] Help? by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 05:42:14PM -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > It does if you're Joe User (or Joe Proxy-Maintainer) and you don't want
3 > a 1G+ git clone of the whole tree so you can developer 1 package for
4 > your local repo.
5 Why do you want to just give up overlays entirely?
6 Either partial tree or shallow writable clones (neither of which exist
7 in Git yet) are going to be other potential solutions.
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10 Robin Hugh Johnson
11 Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
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