Re: git conversion status

Richard Sandiford
2013-10-15T16:57:59Z

Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> 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