Merged repo for protocol headers? Why are they split?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:28:20PM -0800, Dylan Baker wrote:
> Quoting Keith Packard (2017-11-21 12:51:24)
> > Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> writes:
> > 
> > > Also, git://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/newproto appears to contain
> > > the script used to generate the merged repo.
> > 
> > Right, that's probably more useful today. The trick was to get the
> > headers merged without losing any of the history.
> > 
> > > I would be entirely in favor of merging the protocol header repos,
> > > fwiw. For that matter I'd be in favor of generating them from the xcb
> > > xml, but let's burn one bridge at a time.
> > 
> > Who wants to take another run at this wall?
> > 
> > -- 
> > -keith
> 
> Your script splits each proto into a subdirectory, does it really make sense to
> do that, or should the final proto package have everything together in the root?

please no! if you merge all repos the history will be messy. With subdirectories
at least you get a nice git log for each individual repo if you specify the
directory name.

Cheers,
   Peter