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From: "George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux@horizon.com
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Date: 1 Feb 2011 21:29:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110202022909.30644.qmail@science.horizon.com> (raw)

For what it's worth, I don't see the "cleanup".

If it significantly reduced the size of the largest directory,
that would be a win.  But moving everything into src/ doesn't
do that.

If there's a way to divide the source into cohesive subunits, that
would be great.  A programmer could ignore whole subdirectories
when working on something.

But just moving the whole existing pile into a subdirectory "because
everyone else does it" is not a reason; that's superstition.

Having to type "src/" a lot more often is definitely a downside.

Heck, that's one thing I actively dislike about GNU autoconf conventions.

If there's a compelling reason to change, could someone please describe it?

             reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-02  2:29 George Spelvin [this message]
2011-02-02  8:31 ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-02 20:01   ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-03  6:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-03  8:09   ` Miles Bader
2011-02-03 18:01   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03 18:46   ` Eugene Sajine
2011-02-03 21:42     ` Hilco Wijbenga
2011-02-04  2:06       ` Miles Bader
2011-02-04  8:30         ` Tor Arntsen
2011-02-04 10:49           ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-04 11:17         ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-04 18:15         ` [1.8.0] " Nicolas Sebrecht
2011-02-04 22:47           ` Drew Northup
2011-02-05 15:11             ` Nicolas Sebrecht
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-31  5:53 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #06; Sun, 30) Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 17:05 ` Planning for 1.7.5 and 1.8.0 Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 20:28   ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 20:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 21:08       ` Matthieu Moy
2011-01-31 21:33         ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:19       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:00     ` Jeff King
2011-01-31 21:28       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 22:17         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:36           ` João P. Sampaio
2011-01-31 22:37           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 23:12         ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  0:29           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01  1:48             ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  4:05               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 12:42                 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 11:14                   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 11:22                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 13:08                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 16:02                   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 21:53               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01  0:35           ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-01  1:53             ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  1:00           ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-01  1:57             ` Jeff King
2011-02-01  7:24           ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 14:42         ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-02-05  3:21     ` Martin von Zweigbergk

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