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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. I will have two mentors[1] the official
> one on my Google melange is Matthew Summers (quantumsummers)[2], and Brian
> Dolbec (dol-sen).
>
> Throughout the summer I hope to expand the available repo types supported along
> with adding new features such as:
>
> * Repo URL updating
> * Syncing overlays through portage
> * A utility script for creating layman XML definitions
> * Per repo branch user settings.
>
> To list a few.
>
> Source Code:
>
Brian, Devan and Matt,

Feature request: layamn -b <branch> <overlay> to switch branches on git 
overlays.

--Tony

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