From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6664 invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2013 02:12:18 -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 6633 invoked by uid 89); 15 Oct 2013 02:12:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: arjuna.pair.com Received: from arjuna.pair.com (HELO arjuna.pair.com) (209.68.5.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with SMTP; Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:12:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 7798 invoked by uid 3006); 15 Oct 2013 02:12:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Oct 2013 02:12:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 02:12:00 -0000 From: Hans-Peter Nilsson To: Tom Tromey cc: Fred Cooke , Binutils Development , GDB Development Subject: Re: git conversion status In-Reply-To: <87wqlf21bt.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <871u3n3hxc.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <87wqlf21bt.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (BSF 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00056.txt.bz2 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... brgds, H-P