Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become

> 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 to find git-foo implemented in
> something named of that sort, so we could probably help him by mapping
> 
>   git-foo.sh      ->   git-foo.sh
>   builtin/bar.c   ->   git-bar.c
>   baz.c           ->   lib/baz.c
>   baz.o           ->   build/baz.o (or whatever, just elsewhere)
>   baz.gcov        ->   build/baz.gcov (ditto)