On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:53:46 +0400
"Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <[email protected]> wrote:

> We have, for example, lua-socket-9999, that uses:
> GH_AUTHOR=diegonehab
> GH_PROJECT=lua-socket
> GH_BRANCH=unstable
> 
> So, then I fork it and provide some features. And then I want to
> reemerge it from my fork, but I don't want to rewrite ebuild. So, then I do:
> # GH_AUTHOR="msva" GH_BRANCH=master emerge =lua-socket-9999
> and it repulls sources from my fork, reemerge it and installs fine.

You can also use git-2 eclass-specific variables to switch the repo.
The only difference is that you need to specify the full repo URI
rather than just the author.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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