From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:08:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Message-ID: <vpqwrlkg4r8.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <7vvd144wrl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Knee-jerk reaction: not very motivated to make the top-level directory
> just a skeleton that holds various directories with a handful of
> administrative files like Makefile, README, etc.  Under your proposal, the
> bulk of the current content at the top would simply move to another single
> directory anyway, so I don't immediately see much point of such a move,

There would be at least one obvious benefit: currently, we have this

git$ ls | wc -l
623

(that's after a build)

It's a bit hard to find the interesting bits (README, Documentation/,
contrib/ for example) in the output of "ls".

> other than adding merge burden on me and rebase burden on others, that
> is.

That can be seen as a test of how good Git is at bulk rename
management ;-).

All that said, I cannot really say whether the benefit is higher than
the cost.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/