Bug 577364

Summary:	sys-apps/portage: Allow specifying branch name of VCS repo
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Aaron W. Swenson <titanofold>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	240187

Description Aaron W. Swenson gentoo-dev

2016-03-14 10:25:37 UTC

The use case would be for testing incompatible and/or major changes.

I'm currently working on implementing a new eclass in its own topic branch rather than in the master branch of my overlay as I don't want anyone depending on something else to be subjected to incomplete or broken changes.

When setting up another machine for testing, I'd like to be able to specify using that particular branch without having to do a lot of fancy footwork.

Comment 1 Joakim Tjernlund 2017-02-18 14:06:05 UTC

Yes please, I would find this useful too.