Re: git conversion status
Richard Sandiford <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.binutils,gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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Hans-Peter Nilsson <[email protected]> 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