From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Pitre Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:05:36 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <7vzkqh8vqw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vwrll57ha.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <20110131210045.GB14419@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110131231210.GD14419@sigill.intra.peff.net> <20110201014807.GA2722@sigill.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 01 05:05:45 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 1Pk7Uu-0005Dq-5b for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:05:44 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753664Ab1BAEFj (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:05:39 -0500 Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:9579 "EHLO relais.videotron.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752520Ab1BAEFi (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:05:38 -0500 Received: from xanadu.home ([66.130.28.92]) by VL-MR-MRZ22.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0LFX006MJ7DCBRV0@VL-MR-MRZ22.ip.videotron.ca> for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:05:36 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: nico@xanadu.home In-reply-to: <20110201014807.GA2722@sigill.intra.peff.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Jeff King wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 07:29:54PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > > This is no excuse not to do proper source tree reorganization. > > I think this is the crux of our disagreement. I don't agree that your > proposal is any way more "proper" than what is there now. Leaving the > rename issue aside (i.e., if we were starting a new project), I would > still be slightly against a src/ directory. I find them annoying. Let's agree to disagree then. What I see in the root of the Git source tree is a huge clutter of source files, binary files, scripts, and subdirectories all mixed together. If you know by hart where things are because you've been hacking on them for the last 5 years then of course you might not see the point. But since I didn't work much on Git lately, things are not as obvious to me as they used to be. Looking back at it now with some distance, this tree looks like a mess and it is really annoying to work with. > But I don't care _that_ much, and I would rather not waste either of our > time debating it more. I would much rather you spend your time on > pack v4. :) I wish... I wish. But I have a plan which might involve taking some vacation from $day_job in the Caribbeans with $wife and no kids, where $wife is going to do scuba diving with her club mates while I'll be alone with a laptop and no net connection and therefore nothing else to do for a week. I've been craving for such free time for quite a while now. Nicolas