From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Foley Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move contents of libgit.a to lib subdirectory Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:21:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Peter Foley , git@vger.kernel.org To: Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jun 20 03:23:23 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 1QYTCy-0007Vw-5U for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:23:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751921Ab1FTBXP (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:23:15 -0400 Received: from vms173013pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.13]:55866 "EHLO vms173013pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751867Ab1FTBXO (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:23:14 -0400 Received: from linux ([unknown] [108.28.47.43]) by vms173013.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0LN2005VREIJ8Z91@vms173013.mailsrvcs.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:23:13 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Shawn Pearce wrote: > 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. > The basic idea is to organize the git source directory more than it is right now (a flat directory with all the source files at the toplevel). Moving the contents of libgit.a seemed to be a logical way to start. Thanks, Peter