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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Feb 18, 2010, 22:20 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Avery Pennarun wrote:
> 
> If you don't move it, then it'll continue to interfere with
> autocompletion.  Though maybe that's not a good enough reason :)

Yeah, that's not a huge deal. We have other files that share prefixes. The "builtin-" prefix was just _so_ common as to really screw up auto-completion in a big way.

So the reason for moving builtin.h was simply that _most_ of the users are the builtin headers themselves (and as mentioned, I was thinking of making it builtin/cmd.h but avoided it to keep the patch size down).

		Linus
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  1. Linus TorvaldsFeb 18, 2010
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2010
  3. Avery PennarunFeb 18, 2010
  4. Linus TorvaldsFeb 18, 2010
  5. Linus TorvaldsFeb 18, 2010
  6. Christian MICHONFeb 18, 2010
  7. Pavan Kumar SunkaraFeb 19, 2010
  8. Linus TorvaldsFeb 22, 2010
  9. Junio C HamanoFeb 22, 2010
  10. Fabian KösselFeb 25, 2010
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2010

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