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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 17:50, Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net> 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?
If that becomes from time to time as Jonathan pointed out, probably it
means that other people thinks the physical layout of the source files
could be improved.

> What problem does this address?
I think it's the big number of source files at the toplevel directory.