From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shawn Pearce Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move contents of libgit.a to lib subdirectory Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:06:24 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Foley X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 20 03:06:51 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 1QYSx0-0002q1-B8 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:06:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751232Ab1FTBGp (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:06:45 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:56918 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961Ab1FTBGo (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:06:44 -0400 Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so1223365gyh.19 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.1.17 with SMTP id 17mr3186200yba.308.1308532004115; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.147.35.2 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:06:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 17:50, Peter Foley wrote: > This patch tries to organize the git source tree by moving the files which > make up libgit.a to a lib subdirectory. > Before this patch the toplevel source directory contained 285 files. > After this patch the root directory will contain 167 files and > the lib subdirectory will contain 119 files ... Thanks. But why is this amount of churn necessary or being recommended? What problem does this address? Is that worth the pain this puts on every other in-flight change that is still being developed, or is already in the review pipeline? -- Shawn.