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Florian Schmaus posted on Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:40:19 +0100 as excerpted:

> On 15/12/2022 21.10, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> On 12/15/22 20:22, Florian Schmaus wrote:
>>> o use PORTDIR_OVERLAY and multiple repositories on their system: a
>>> system-wide, managed by portage, and a dev repository (in your HOME),
>>> scoped in via PORTDIR_OVERLAY.
>> 
>> Isn't this covered by /etc/portage/repos.conf/*
> 
> Absolutely, but this requires a manual intervention from the user. And,
> of course, you can totally opt-out from portage managing (syncing) the
> repository, but then you have to take care of syncing yourself.
> 
> The point is that with the new portage release, portage's behavior
> changes. And I would argue that portage should not, in its effort to
> become more user friendly, disregard ebuild-developer friendliness.
> Assuming it is achievable with a reasonable amount of additional code
> complexity.

This bit me too, and making things worse, the truncate killed the git 
history that presumably had the answer I needed to fix it up. 
=:^(  Fortunately I had a bit of a clue due to preemptively following the 
portage changelog where I had seen a hint, so I was able to dig it up 
again without the git log help that's definitely now my first instinct.

Long story short and for the record, manual intervention indeed and I wish 
it had at least come with a news item, but here's the magic that fixed it 
for me.

I had one of these previously, IIRC clone depth, but both are now needed.  
I put these in the [DEFAULT] section here because I run several overlays 
and I "want" access to proper git logs and history by default. (FWIW 
"want" is the polite, cooled down, version; the situation was considerably 
more sweary when I lost that history and instinctively I tried to look in 
the git history for why, but of course it was GONE!)

repos.conf, [DEFAULT] (or [gentoo]) section:

clone-depth     = 0
sync-depth      = 0

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