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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 12:58:21 -0700
From: Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Layman Improvements -- introductory report
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On Mon, 19 May 2014 15:37:47 -0400
"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 05/19/14 14:44, Devan Franchini wrote:
> > Hello Gentoo community!
> >
> > For this GSoC 2014 I've been accepted by the Gentoo Foundation to
> > work on improvements to the Gentoo tool, Layman. 

> Brian, Devan and Matt,
> 
> Feature request: layamn -b <branch> <overlay> to switch branches on
> git overlays.
> 
> --Tony
> 

IT's already on his TODO list :)

branches for all possible repo types actually, like git, svn,...
the underlying code mechanism should be similar.


 cvs already has it's subpath

Devan, your clue to implementing it ^_^  :)

-- 
Brian Dolbec