Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> 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/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html