[RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2011, 02:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20110218022701.GA23435@elie>
In-Reply-To: <1297304069-14764-1-git-send-email-pclouds@gmail.com>

Hi,

Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:

>  .gitignore                                         |   19 ------------
>  Makefile                                           |   30 ++++++++++----------
>  t/helper/.gitignore                                |   19 ++++++++++++

[...]

>  24 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

Here's a variation on the theme that just moves source and .o files (leaving questions about how to cope with breaking muscle memory for the resulting executables for later). What do you think?

Patch 1 moves the sources for libgit.a to a subdirectory. This seems appealing anyway, to encourage people to start thinking about how to make it into a standalone and reusable library.

Patch 2 moves source for test programs like test-sha1 to a subdirectory.

Patch 3 dumps header files into an include/ subdirectory. I'm not thrilled with it but it does make the toplevel directory listing shorter.

After this series:

 $ ls | wc -l
 86

which fits nicely on a 113x31 terminal (but certainly not an 80x24 one).

The change descriptions need work.  Help would be appreciated.

Thoughts?
Jonathan Nieder (3):
  Move libgit.a sources into a libgit/ subdirectory
  Move test-* into a test-programs/ subdirectory
  Move header files into a include/ subdirectory

 Makefile                                           |  418 ++++++++++----------
 [plus a bunch of renames]
 208 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-)