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From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 09:31:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikBH8Qs3izT86WW7qyJ2etwFFj9GPVJ2QeRCmag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110202022909.30644.qmail@science.horizon.com>

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:29 AM, George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> wrote:
> If there's a compelling reason to change, could someone please describe it?

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-02  8:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-02  2:29 [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become George Spelvin
2011-02-02  8:31 ` Erik Faye-Lund [this message]
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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