From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:57:02 -0800 Message-ID: <7vvd144wrl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <7vzkqh8vqw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwrll57ha.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nicolas Pitre X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jan 31 21:57:20 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 1Pk0oH-0003do-7I for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:57:17 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755994Ab1AaU5M (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:57:12 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:56230 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753746Ab1AaU5L (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:57:11 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431C541B4; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:58:03 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=Ey0PB0EW+CIrt6AVdkQfa9pUWhQ=; b=TvXD5R mdllNMYizJ1zAYX122V3ta5NrfoZyMKOfk32+uLwNu/3CRCIaJN34cjEyFGbNr4/ t4Kgil+cH/LOGnRLZ8OH+FhPhCueoZm4i3dgx42zyBFw8ktt5OCegJ5oq3w9jmJS UwT9GT8WDYAm/LQWLlUroQHoUmvtgEWnoS1Xk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=V90Tuu+M6dWFlHcfPuD2o7gAYwJtD+jr l+3Q0sAYmCUFJVPS74viAwnxtAYeIvR9Uw+Ha3NzOl39YD+mMXVs9ZfhgVXsGz8h j5VNo4dMoXUOJEyq7O8fc4srwDUWSaWQZipI0VfSu1h0rLeXcQVgp1BGKp+pWyw+ B2x1DPw/nbk= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE2041B2; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:58:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA71941AE; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 15:57:56 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Nicolas Pitre's message of "Mon\, 31 Jan 2011 15\:28\:37 -0500 \(EST\)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: CA155A80-2D7C-11E0-B985-F13235C70CBC-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nicolas Pitre writes: > 1) Create a src/ directory and move *.c, *.h, *.sh, *.perl, *.py and > the builtin directory from the root directory to it. > > 2) Create a build/ directory, or bin/ if prefered, to hold the result of > the build. >... > 6) And fix up all the Makefiles to cope with the above movements. > > What do you think? Knee-jerk reaction: not very motivated to make the top-level directory just a skeleton that holds various directories with a handful of administrative files like Makefile, README, etc. Under your proposal, the bulk of the current content at the top would simply move to another single directory anyway, so I don't immediately see much point of such a move, other than adding merge burden on me and rebase burden on others, that is. But that is just a knee-jerk reaction, just to fill the "Risks:" section you didn't fill. Your missing "Migration Plans" section might outline a clever approach to lessen the interim hurt while merging in-flight topics.