Re: [RFD] Deepen the git directory structure a bit.

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 18, 2010, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db661002181534r10a887b5gcc23435cb8952f13@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002181010590.4141@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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> Ok, this is just a request-for-discussion. I'm trying out a patch like
> this, and I think it's a step in the right direction. The git directory
> structure is _very_ flat, and currently in a fully built git tree, the
> top-level directory has something like 750 files in it.
>
> After this, it still has a ton of files, but it has shrunk to ~575 files
> instead, and at least for my (admittedly somewhat odd) setup, that
> actually matters for auto-completion etc.

maybe rather than just autocompletion, it does help new code to land in the right place ? I think just for this reason at least it's a good move.

I've a wild idea on a new command to add to git and I was pondering between having it as a perl script or a builtin. Now I know where it should go if I choose a builtin, provided you get a wide consensus.

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> which doesn't seem all that different, but not having that annoying
> break in "Display all 180 possibilities?" is quite a relief.
>
> NOTE! If you do this in a clean tree (no object files etc), or using an
> editor that has auto-completion rules that ignores '*.o' files, you
> won't see that annoying 'Display all 180 possibilities?' message - it
> will just show the choices instead.  I think bash has some cut-off
> around 100 choices or something.

odd. On my msysgit setup and bash 3.1, I get this on a clean tree:

$ ls builtin<tab> Display all 90 possibilities? (y or n)

But hey, this is on Windows, so we should not bother :-)

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