From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:57:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Message-ID: <7vvd144wrl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101311459000.8580@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> 1) Create a src/ directory and move *.c, *.h, *.sh, *.perl, *.py and 
>    the builtin directory from the root directory to it.
>
> 2) Create a build/ directory, or bin/ if prefered, to hold the result of 
>    the build.
>...
> 6) And fix up all the Makefiles to cope with the above movements.
>
> What do you think?

Knee-jerk reaction: not very motivated to make the top-level directory
just a skeleton that holds various directories with a handful of
administrative files like Makefile, README, etc.  Under your proposal, the
bulk of the current content at the top would simply move to another single
directory anyway, so I don't immediately see much point of such a move,
other than adding merge burden on me and rebase burden on others, that
is.

But that is just a knee-jerk reaction, just to fill the "Risks:" section
you didn't fill.  Your missing "Migration Plans" section might outline a
clever approach to lessen the interim hurt while merging in-flight topics.