From: Thomas Rast Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 12:42:06 GMT Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Message-ID: <201102011342.06910.trast@student.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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 no huge fan of src/ either, but this should be orthogonal.) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch