From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:02:48 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimgv6Hhbu8B9wiydwn9WQrgKfmT+hEyJKbkO6RB@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102011342.06910.trast@student.ethz.ch>
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
> 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 ...
A hacker is expected to RTFM first, IMO. Put up a document describing
how things are organized in git and we're good. git-grep will take
care from there.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-01 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 138+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 5:53 What's cooking in git.git (Jan 2011, #06; Sun, 30) Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 15:08 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-08 17:48 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-08 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 17:05 ` Planning for 1.7.5 and 1.8.0 Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 17:06 ` [1.8.0] default "git merge" without argument to "git merge @{u}" Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 20:14 ` Jeff King
2011-01-31 20:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 20:32 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-01-31 20:50 ` [1.8.0] (v2) " Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:55 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 0:01 ` Thomas Adam
2011-02-01 18:34 ` Scott Chacon
2011-02-01 20:11 ` moving to a git-backed wiki Jeff King
2011-02-01 22:36 ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 22:48 ` J.H.
2011-02-02 9:55 ` Vincent Hanquez
2011-02-02 10:53 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-02 11:14 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-03 2:24 ` J.H.
2011-02-03 17:45 ` Jeff King
2011-02-03 19:06 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-04 6:03 ` Jeff King
2011-02-03 20:34 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-04 6:16 ` Jeff King
2011-02-04 17:50 ` Felipe Contreras
2011-02-04 14:34 ` Joey Hess
2011-02-05 7:00 ` david
2011-02-04 7:31 ` [1.8.0] (v2) default "git merge" without argument to "git merge @{u}" Thomas Hochstein
2011-02-04 23:01 ` [PATCH/RFC] Add support for merging from upstream by default Jared Hance
2011-01-31 17:07 ` [1.8.0] Unify "pathspec" semantics Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 14:56 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-01-31 20:28 ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 21:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-01-31 21:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:19 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 21:00 ` Jeff King
2011-01-31 21:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:36 ` João P. Sampaio
2011-01-31 22:37 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-01-31 23:12 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 0:29 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 1:48 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 4:05 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 12:42 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 11:14 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 11:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-01 13:08 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 16:02 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2011-02-01 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 0:35 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-01 1:53 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 1:00 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-01 1:57 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 7:24 ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 14:42 ` Andreas Ericsson
2011-01-31 21:59 ` [1.8.0] 't/' is standard name for directory with tests Jakub Narebski
2011-01-31 22:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 0:12 ` Alex Budovski
2011-02-01 0:33 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 0:58 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-01 1:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-02 23:55 ` Sam Vilain
2011-02-01 18:26 ` [1.8.0] split largest remaining scripts, gitk and gitweb Jakub Narebski
2011-02-01 22:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 23:20 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-05 3:21 ` [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-01-31 21:44 ` [1.8.0] make two-argument fetch update remote branches Thomas Rast
2011-01-31 22:18 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-01-31 22:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 22:27 ` Eugene Sajine
2011-01-31 23:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 23:39 ` Eugene Sajine
2011-02-01 1:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 23:22 ` Jeff King
2011-02-01 7:04 ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-01 15:58 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 22:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 21:05 ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-02-01 22:39 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 23:25 ` A Large Angry SCM
2011-01-31 21:55 ` [1.8.0] forbid full fetchspecs in git-pull Thomas Rast
2011-01-31 22:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-01-31 23:15 ` Dmitry Potapov
2011-02-01 15:14 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-01 20:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2011-02-01 3:20 ` Planning for 1.7.5 and 1.8.0 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 4:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-01 14:54 ` [1.8.0] Tag namespaces Marc Branchaud
2011-02-01 15:21 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-01 18:37 ` [1.8.0] Remove deprecated commands René Scharfe
2011-02-01 22:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-02 0:57 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-10 19:42 ` René Scharfe
2011-02-10 20:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-10 21:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-12 13:24 ` René Scharfe
2011-02-12 21:04 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-13 23:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-01 21:41 ` [1.8.0] Handle submodule config options consistently in diff plumbing Jens Lehmann
2011-02-02 11:56 ` [1.8.0] Tracking empty directories Jakub Narebski
2011-02-02 23:23 ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-02 23:33 ` David Aguilar
2011-02-02 23:52 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-03 2:21 ` Wesley J. Landaker
2011-02-03 5:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-02-03 10:07 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-05 7:43 ` Pete Harlan
2011-02-05 18:31 ` Thomas Koch
2011-02-05 19:00 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-05 22:37 ` Jared Hance
2011-02-06 20:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-06 20:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-02-06 4:42 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-02-02 17:23 ` [1.8.0] git-stash invocation changes Thomas Rast
2011-02-02 17:35 ` Shawn Pearce
2011-02-02 18:15 ` Matthieu Moy
2011-02-02 18:51 ` Thomas Rast
2011-02-09 14:35 ` Pat Notz
2011-02-23 19:54 ` [1.8.0] Don't copy "submodule.<name>.update" to .git/config on submodule init Jens Lehmann
2011-02-23 20:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-23 22:43 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-24 0:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-24 23:44 ` Jens Lehmann
2011-02-02 2:29 [1.8.0] reorganize the mess that the source tree has become George Spelvin
2011-02-02 8:31 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2011-02-02 20:01 ` Pascal Obry
2011-02-03 6:16 ` Nicolas Pitre
2011-02-03 8:09 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-03 18:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-03 18:46 ` Eugene Sajine
2011-02-03 21:42 ` Hilco Wijbenga
2011-02-04 2:06 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-04 8:30 ` Tor Arntsen
2011-02-04 10:49 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-02-04 11:17 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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