From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FaXWE-0006Xr-Cc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 May 2006 12:28:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k41CRPBi001442; Mon, 1 May 2006 12:27:25 GMT Received: from pproxy.gmail.com (pproxy.gmail.com [64.233.166.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k41CNCjJ010025 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 12:23:12 GMT Received: by pproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i49so2986380pye for ; Mon, 01 May 2006 05:23:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eFNQa/4+I+2a10Dn3cAtn1v36uWJcAHpeS+3L5y1vbrzVMdJNgTrbXCqJ3ixytlrZO52s+LGaNKOwk+Wcb5GT/pek48DCAkNnFKbp6F0mOwsGP4m9jbIBBG4ivpYsYW2DNEXyIvmZEv4Bsq+GtWHQkCpHFJ2K+zuzCst+QDiRzI= Received: by 10.35.105.18 with SMTP id h18mr3395216pym; Mon, 01 May 2006 05:23:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.99.11 with HTTP; Mon, 1 May 2006 05:23:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <623652d50605010523w55d76cej874eb55c25213f1a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:23:10 +0100 From: "Chris Bainbridge" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union In-Reply-To: <20060430163228.GA28594@osgiliath> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060428171453.GB62035@watcher.kimaker.com> <20060428185501.GA22506@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <20060428192434.GB22373@woodpecker.gentoo.org> <44527A01.3080506@gentoo.org> <20060430012640.GB7596@ubik> <44546C55.5020902@gentoo.org> <20060430163228.GA28594@osgiliath> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k41CNCjJ010025 X-Archives-Salt: bfeca095-ec7e-408f-a4ac-eb15043917fd X-Archives-Hash: 3fb17ed41088e4cb4248e75dfbd60ebe On 30/04/06, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:50:45AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > While we're posting useful links, here's another one from the cairo > > project on switching from CVS to some distributed SCM: > > All this talk about switching to a more powerful SCM I can understand > - but what would the purpose of switching the portage tree to a > distributed SCM be? The main purpose that comes to mind is to help the groups working in overlays (layman -L shows 28 current overlays; there may be more). It should enable easier merging of trees, local tree management, sharing experimental changes between devs without commiting to the main tree, while still retaining the possibility of easily pushing changes back to the main gentoo tree. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list