Re: [sabayon-dev] About splitting sabayon overlay to easily use it on Gentoo

[Joost Ruis]

Can live without history. (especially my stupid EPIC mistakes)

2011/9/25 Sławomir Nizio <slawomir.ni...@sabayon.org>:
> I've written above about another solution (make 2 git repos, every one
> based on the current one), so commit history for every ebuild/eclass
> is preserved (in fact it's preserved for deleted files, but it's less
> comfortable/common to access - you need to know such a file/dir was
> there). Downside: size of .git directory is doubled (72 MB on my
> system without doing gc). Take a look at the two my messages above
> please.
>
> And second it'd be some more work to do rather than "then transfer out
> the sabayon specific ebuilds  (there are less of them and are pretty
> obvious)".
>
> Do we need that git history in the two overlays, after all? I'd say
> "can live without it" and do as you wrote. Any thoughts on this?
>
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