Speaking about git history, don't know why I didn't think of it the first place: it could be done this way (idea): cp -r overlay overlay-gen mv overlay overlay-sab rm overlay-gen/sab-stuff rm overlay-sab/gen-stuff ZzZ.
> This idea seems to be profitable for Gentoo users. I've sometime > thought about it. > > Should it be done or not, let me share my thoughts of main > disadvantages for Sabayon I can think of, for fruitful discussion. > > - A git repository created from scratch wouldn't have ebuilds etc. > history (logs). But if for example the "Gentooish" overlay is made of > current sabayon overlay from which Sabayon stuff is removed, git > history of deleted files would be still available in it. > I don't know if that could be made better, but if not, maybe this > problem could be ignored (of course if answer for this proposal is > "yes"). > I can only think of spliting the overlay *not* into two physical git > repositories, but into two branches. Question here: would it be a > comfortable solution for the maintainers - hmm, it could work. But I'm > not that sure layman-and-others support it. > > - It's possible some eclasses and/or virtuals would need to be shared > and maintained simultaneously in the two overlays, but it's IMO no big > thing. > > I don't know how it looks from the perspective of the infrastructure, > so I won't say anything in this regard. > > On the other hand: what good could it bring to Sabayon - more fame. :) >
