Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to "extract" a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Kyle Bader
> ebuild unpack > and then look at /var/tmp/portage//work/ > > but is there a direct way (or how does portage do this)? I'm not sure how portage does this but the git directory is likely "bare" which is why you don't see any branch files. Try: git clone /usr/portage/distfiles/git-src/$P

[gentoo-user] [OT] how to "extract" a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, when I use a - type ebuild which accesses the source from a GIT repository this is stored under /usr/portage/distfiles/git-src/$PN where $PN is the package name. But one cannot look at the source files since these are in compressed form. How can I setup a directory with the uncompressed