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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move contents of libgit.a to lib subdirectory
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:06:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTimjixOT=j9Xf=Ti-04cRw2noC0NiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1106192014410.41113@linux.foleyremote.com>

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? 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20  1:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-20  0:50 [PATCH/RFC] Move contents of libgit.a to lib subdirectory Peter Foley
2011-06-20  1:06 ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2011-06-20  1:21   ` Peter Foley
2011-06-20  5:59   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-20  6:47     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-06-20 14:55   ` Thiago Farina
2011-06-20  1:12 ` Jonathan Nieder

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