From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:37:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101311734140.8580@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vpqrc4t1s.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> If we make the top-level directory lean enough, we probably can tab
> complete after typing just "cd t" to go to testsuite/ or tests/ or
> whatever you come up with, so "more typing" is not a huge issue to me
> personally.
> 
> I however think the directory name "t/" is not our invention but what we
> took from somebody else (perhaps Perl?), and I suspect some people expect
> to find tests under there since we have had them there for a long time.

If those people are not able to figure out that "testsuite" means where 
tests are, especially within a lean top directory, then we might 
question the reliability of the tests they might contribute.


Nicolas