From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21079 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2013 16:57:59 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 21061 invoked by uid 89); 15 Oct 2013 16:57:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mail-ea0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-ea0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-ea0-f172.google.com) (209.85.215.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:57:58 +0000 Received: by mail-ea0-f172.google.com with SMTP id r16so4158973ead.3 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:57:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.15.43.206 with SMTP id x54mr1812763eev.79.1381856274990; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:57:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sandifor-thinkpad.stglab.manchester.uk.ibm.com ([2.28.235.51]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f49sm168683893eec.7.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 15 Oct 2013 09:57:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Sandiford To: Hans-Peter Nilsson Mail-Followup-To: Hans-Peter Nilsson ,Tom Tromey , Fred Cooke , Binutils Development , GDB Development , rdsandiford@googlemail.com Cc: Tom Tromey , Fred Cooke , Binutils Development , GDB Development Subject: Re: git conversion status References: <871u3n3hxc.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87wqlf21bt.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:57:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Hans-Peter Nilsson's message of "Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:12:15 -0400 (EDT)") Message-ID: <87ppr6lbea.fsf@sandifor-thinkpad.stglab.manchester.uk.ibm.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00064.txt.bz2 Hans-Peter Nilsson writes: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Tom Tromey wrote: >> Fred> 'git clone URL' will produce a directory called "src" which >> Fred> is utterly meaningless on any developer's machine. >> >> I chose it because the existing repository is named "src". > > Counter-argument: > I *prefer* src, exactly for that reason; "scripts expect that". > > If you-all want binutils+gdb (or some other combination of their > names), I can live with that, but not another generic name just > because someone offers the opinion that "src is utterly > meaningless". It's not: it's the default name of the check-out > directory of sourceware top-level... +1 FWIW. I don't mind what the thing's called, but renaming from src feels like make-work. And I disagree that "src is utterly meaningless on any developer's machine". It actually fits quite nicely in a: binutils/ src/ mips64-linux-gnu/ x86_64-linux-gnu/ ... layout. I usually find I end up specifying a repo name explicitly ("git clone URL dir") with other projects anyway. Richard