From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 16:02:48 GMT Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <201102011342.06910.trast@student.ethz.ch> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Thomas Rast wrote: > 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 ... A hacker is expected to RTFM first, IMO. Put up a document describing how things are organized in git and we're good. git-grep will take care from there. -- Duy