Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Overlay Git: Feature Branches

["Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:32:39PM -0500, Lucas Ramage wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to specify a branch in repos.conf/overlay_name.conf?
The source of Portage's pym/portage/sync/modules/git/git.py contains
this comment:
def update(self):
        ''' Update existing git repository, and ignore the syncuri. We are
        going to trust the user and assume that the user is in the branch
        that he/she wants updated. We'll let the user manage branches with
        git directly.
        '''

To that end, I think the answer is no.

If this were to change, there are a bunch of questions that would need agreement in how they are answered:
- if the repo's remote URI has changed, should we update the git checkout's
  remote URI from sync-uri? (what if there are multiple remotes in the checkout?)
- if the repo's branch has changed in the config, should we update the checkout's branch?

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