2012/5/24 Dan Douglas <orm...@gmail.com> > On Thursday, May 24, 2012 06:33:53 AM Duncan wrote: > > Dan Douglas posted on Thu, 24 May 2012 01:04:48 -0500 as excerpted: > > > On Thursday, May 24, 2012 07:56:58 AM Michał Górny wrote: > > >> On Wed, 23 May 2012 16:14:53 -0500 > > >> > > >> Dan Douglas <orm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > If not I will be leaving Gentoo for Funtoo in the near future, > though > > >> > there are disadvantages to doing this I don't look forward to > dealing > > >> > with. > > >> > > >> Most of us will probably be doing that :P. > > > > > > Eh sorry that wasn't meant to be antagonistic. I'll still have Gentoo > > > boxen to deal with. I just need to be able to use git on the tree (even > > > without the full history is perfectly fine) to ease the difficulty of > > > local overlay management. Glad to hear that will be possible, or at > > > least somewhat easier. > > > > FWIW, I as a user would sure like a git-based tree. Doing git > whatchanged > > searches on individual files and being able to track my last checkout and > > roll back to it, or to a point between it and current HEAD, are extremely > > useful. I haven't thought of it much until now, but I think maintaining > > overlays as simple branches would be great, as well. > > I don't think doing a branch of the entire tree is a good idea (well > maybe...). I was thinking more along the lines of subtree merges into a > local > overlay, or perhaps submodules. To do that currently (I think) would > require > taking the rsync tree and putting that into a repo, and trying to keep it > synchronized. Plus in the process you lose all correspondance with upstream > commits so that logs and diffs become meaningless. > -- > Dan Douglas
git++ -- Vítor Brandão (noisebleed)
