From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:42:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/3] Thinning the git toplevel directory
Message-ID: <7vlj16aeih.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110223045143.GA11846@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:30:41AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > Speaking of Makefiles, one downside to all of this directory
>> > segmentation is that you can't run "make" from the subdirectories.
>> 
>> I had an impression that "make -C lib/" would be one of the goals, iow,
>> when we split the directory structure, the next step would be to split the
>> top-level Makefile so that each directory is covered by its own Makefile,
>> just like Documentation/ is already usable that way.
>
> Ugh. I am not thrilled at the prospect of more recursive make.

Likewise. Notice that I have consistently been unthrilled when people
started talking about splitting the source code tree?