From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Sebrecht Subject: [1.8.0] Re: reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 16:11:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20110205151143.GA14187@vidovic> References: <20110202022909.30644.qmail@science.horizon.com> <87bp2sy2mf.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <20110204181550.GA14173@vidovic> <1296859660.1255.49.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht , Miles Bader , Hilco Wijbenga , git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre , George Spelvin , Eugene Sajine To: Drew Northup X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Feb 05 16:12:08 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 1Pljnv-0002jA-NM for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:12:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752100Ab1BEPLu (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:11:50 -0500 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:55566 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751746Ab1BEPLu (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2011 10:11:50 -0500 Received: by wyb28 with SMTP id 28so3205124wyb.19 for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:11:48 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=hNCEY2NPuYWZolKuXiEoR0GUFp+IImdznWq9v3DR/Rk=; b=N4q5f3owyruy3T9JvP2Nbjq8UPzyOsCOIlDFH4XZkCI8Cuxqb0FirnOY9xMD0EJiWI SnyPK81RK+22Hh022nvWFt23D8vkImHyNf522QjrFqBP77Y0ca46zuJpdSbvhavIwIzl 6tAbSmnXyaSNvHm4Wsy8NIBMVXFWRt9wXHydU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=PbnPTAEtptiMxt0y9yhakJpsjPUI02fJOOjG3H9xXNsSaKij3HCb5i3ksIjEbXyjPP CsXpu1tiIJLl024q4EXdgNf0/Hp5VhCrdGOfwoLa60BH1TcKPzDFcJZsepTrcsyfmDGa b2mpzeZR836NGNvlUbh6r4PG2pDmRAzvs6Njg= Received: by 10.227.161.13 with SMTP id p13mr13497316wbx.164.1296918708603; Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:11:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from vidovic (aqu33-8-83-155-187-36.fbx.proxad.net [83.155.187.36]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b54sm1044487wer.21.2011.02.05.07.11.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:11:47 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1296859660.1255.49.camel@drew-northup.unet.maine.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The 04/02/11, Drew Northup wrote: > Having once upon a time (in CVS days) taken over a project that was > neatly organized into tons of folders I can say that more folders is not > always better. > If you are organizing things into modules by folders, and those things > are mutually exclusive pre-compilation then doing so may make sense. If > the folders ADD value to the project by adding organization--as opposed > to hiding disorganization--then they may have value. This _is_ what we are talking about. Not tons of folders or whathever you might think. > destructive things > killed that first > project > project exploded with a fury resembling > a religious confrontation. see that happen to Git > see that project die you exasperate > enough of the core developers Read again. I'm pretty sure this was not your goal but this almostly looks like FUD to me. So, I don't think I'll involve to more discussion in this subthread. -- Nicolas Sebrecht