From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Spelvin" Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Date: 1 Feb 2011 21:29:09 -0500 Message-ID: <20110202022909.30644.qmail@science.horizon.com> Cc: linux@horizon.com To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 02 03:29:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PkSTB-0002mO-OB for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:29:22 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752540Ab1BBC3L (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:29:11 -0500 Received: from science.horizon.com ([71.41.210.146]:41853 "HELO science.horizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752393Ab1BBC3L (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:29:11 -0500 Received: (qmail 30645 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Feb 2011 21:29:09 -0500 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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?