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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Move contents of libgit.a to lib subdirectory

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Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
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Jun 20, 2011, 14:55 UTC
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 17:50, Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net> wrote:
>> This patch tries to organize the git source tree by moving the files which
>> make up libgit.a to a lib subdirectory.
>> Before this patch the toplevel source directory contained 285 files.
>> After this patch the root directory will contain 167 files and
>> the lib subdirectory will contain 119 files
> ...
>
> Thanks. But why is this amount of churn necessary or being
> recommended?

If that becomes from time to time as Jonathan pointed out, probably it means that other people thinks the physical layout of the source files could be improved.

> What problem does this address?
I think it's the big number of source files at the toplevel directory.
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  1. Move contents of libgit.a to lib subdirectoryPeter Foley, Jun 20, 2011
  2. Shawn PearceJun 20, 2011
  3. Peter FoleyJun 20, 2011
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2011
  5. Jonathan NiederJun 20, 2011
  6. Thiago FarinaJun 20, 2011
  7. Jonathan NiederJun 20, 2011

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