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

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Thomas Rast [off-list ref] 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 ...

A hacker is expected to RTFM first, IMO. Put up a document describing
how things are organized in git and we're good. git-grep will take
care from there.
-- 
Duy