On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 13:23 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> 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.

Hrm.  Don't we get that benefit only if the overlays switch over to
using the same distributed VCS that the main tree moves to?

Best regards,
Stu
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