Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Jeff King wrote:

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 07:29:54PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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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