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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:11:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110219111103.GA1841@elie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vei75p3zr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

>>  git://repo.or.cz/git/jrn.git flatten-source
>
> Huh?  Did you mean deepen or unflatten?

The branch name was unflatten-source.  Sorry about that.

I've pushed some more simple tweaks.

 - remove the ".sh" suffix from most build helpers
 - rename scripts/ to build-helpers/.  Much nicer.
 - rename libgit/ to lib/.  The shorter pathnames this allows are much
   nicer.
 - move compat/ under the lib/ umbrella
 - merge builtins/ with commands/.  It never was clear to me why
   making a command builtin should require changing its filename.
 - rename gitk-git/ to gitk/
 - rename t/ to tests/, to get a sense for what that feels like

Some remaining details:

>>  - moved the http support mini-library to http/.
>
> I don't understand the motivation behind this---wouldn't it belong to
> "libgit/" and if not why not?

They are not linked into the main git binary, to avoid a dependency on
libcurl and libexpat.  So it might (or might not) be useful to keep
them in a subdir to avoid tempting people to use those functions when
not appropriate.

lib/http/, with a README explaining their special status?

>>  - renamed git_remote_helpers to python/, though I'm not very happy
>>    about that.
>
> I am not fond of naming a directory after a language _unless_ the contents
> of the directory is _all_ about laying the foundation of something else
> that happens to be implemented in that language.

"git remote-testgit" uses it for
 - basic utility functions (die, debug, warn)
 - accessing a git repository and listing its branches (GitRepo)
 - running git fast-export (GitExporter) and keeping a marks file
   between runs
 - running git fast-import (GitImporter) and keeping a marks file
   between runs
 - maintaining a mirror of a non-local git repo (NonLocalGit) to
   be able to run fast-export from it

I am guessing a longer term plan is for it to acquire subpackages with
analagous functionality accessing other version control systems.  It
would be tempting to do

 other-vcs/
	bazaar/
	git/
	mercurial/
	subversion/

(intermixing C and Python code) but that doesn't work because it does
not match the structure of the git_remote_helpers package.

Side note: I am not sure I like the git_remote_helpers name.  Wouldn't
a good goal be for these modules to be usable by other VCSes'
import/export scripts, too?

Thanks for the comments.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-19 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09 15:14 [PATCH/RFC] Move test-*.c to test/ subdirectory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-09 15:23 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-09 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-10  2:14   ` [PATCH] Move test-* to t/helper/ subdirectory Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-02-18  2:27     ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  2:31       ` [PATCH 1/3] Move libgit.a sources into a libgit/ subdirectory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  3:47         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-18  4:14           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:18             ` Jeff King
2011-02-18  5:58               ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:31         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-18  2:33       ` [PATCH 2/3] Move test-* into a test-programs/ subdirectory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  2:37       ` [PATCH 3/3] Move header files into a include/ subdirectory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  3:52         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-18  4:29           ` [RFC/PATCH 4 to 6/3] Move remaining " Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:32             ` [PATCH 4/3] compat: do not use relative paths to refer to git-compat-util.h et al Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:34             ` [PATCH 5/3] block-sha1: do not use relative path for git-compat-util.h Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:35             ` [PATCH 6/3] Move git-compat-util.h, strbuf.h, and cache.h to include/ Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  3:56       ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-18  4:51         ` [RFC/PATCH 7 - 9/3] " Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:52           ` [PATCH 7/3] Move test-sha1.sh to test-programs/ Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  4:55           ` [PATCH 8/3] Move build helpers to scripts/ subdirectory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  5:04           ` [PATCH 9/3] Move non-builtin git commands and script libraries to a subdirectory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18  9:25         ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18 11:08           ` Jeff King
2011-02-18 12:33             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-18 12:33           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-18 18:55           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-19 11:11             ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2011-02-19 23:05               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-19 23:15                 ` The git_remote_helpers package (Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory) Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-22 15:56               ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory Jeff King
2011-02-22 19:30                 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-22 19:32                   ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-23  4:51                   ` Jeff King
2011-02-23  8:29                     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-23  8:43                       ` Jeff King
2011-02-23  9:56                         ` Recursive make and variations on the theme Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-23 16:42                     ` [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory Junio C Hamano
2011-02-23 17:18                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-23 23:09                         ` Drew Northup
2011-02-24  0:14                           ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-24 17:10                             ` Drew Northup
2011-02-24 18:04                               ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-24 19:08                                 ` Jeff King
2011-02-24 19:46                                   ` Drew Northup
2011-02-19  0:10           ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-19  0:31             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-19  0:50               ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-19  9:27                 ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-19  9:24               ` Piotr Krukowiecki
2011-02-19  9:41                 ` Advertising the prebuilt htmldocs and manpages Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-20  6:52                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-20  9:40                     ` Jonathan Nieder

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