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

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Thomas Rast wrote:

Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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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 judging by that assessment, shouldn't we strive to make it
*easier* to find things?

In particular a prospective git hacker would not care whether
something is a source file or a script (you seem to imply the
opposite).  He would instead expect to find git-foo implemented in
something named of that sort, so we could probably help him by mapping

  git-foo.sh      ->   git-foo.sh
  builtin/bar.c   ->   git-bar.c
  baz.c           ->   lib/baz.c
  baz.o           ->   build/baz.o (or whatever, just elsewhere)
  baz.gcov        ->   build/baz.gcov (ditto)

I'm not proposing to go that far, especially given the current 
resistance to any changes.  IMHO anything that unclutters the top 
directory is good.

Nicolas