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

From: Peter Foley <pefoley2@verizon.net>
Date: Jun 20, 2011, 01:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1106192111250.18284@linux.foleyremote.com>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimjixOT=j9Xf=Ti-04cRw2noC0NiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Shawn Pearce 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? What problem does this address? Is that worth the pain
> this puts on every other in-flight change that is still being
> developed, or is already in the review pipeline?
> 
> -- 
> Shawn.
>

The basic idea is to organize the git source directory more than it is 
right now (a flat directory with all the source files at the toplevel).
Moving the contents of libgit.a seemed to be a logical way to start.
 
Thanks,

Peter