On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. ÂIf 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. ÂBut since I didn't work much on Git >> lately, things are not as obvious to me as they used to be. ÂLooking >> 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). ÂHe 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 -- 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