From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pascal Obry Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:01:53 +0100 Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net Message-ID: <4D49B831.2030007@obry.net> References: <20110202022909.30644.qmail@science.horizon.com> Reply-To: pascal@obry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: George Spelvin , git@vger.kernel.org To: kusmabite@gmail.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 02 21:09:55 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 1Pkj1W-0005dk-W4 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:09:55 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752286Ab1BBUJt convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:09:49 -0500 Received: from smtp05.smtpout.orange.fr ([80.12.242.127]:21719 "EHLO smtp.smtpout.orange.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751603Ab1BBUJt (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:09:49 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 471 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:09:48 EST Received: from [192.168.0.100] ([82.124.203.119]) by mwinf5d09 with ME id 381t1g00c2b4kYJ0381u89; Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:01:56 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; fr-FR; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Le 02/02/2011 09:31, Erik Faye-Lund a =E9crit : > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 AM, George Spelvin wr= ote: >> If there's a compelling reason to change, could someone please descr= ibe it? >=20 > I think the most compelling argument I can think of is that it makes > top-level entries like Documentation, RelNotes, COPYING, README and > INSTALL easier to spot when doing "ls". For some users (first-time > hackers etc) that's a pretty big plus, I'd think. I was about to say that too. That's an argument strong enough I would say. Today it is hard to see the structure. --=20 --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net - http://v2p.fr.eu.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-key F949BD3B