Merged repo for protocol headers? Why are they split?

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Wed Nov 22 06:45:56 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-11-22 at 10:25 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 03:28:20PM -0800, Dylan Baker wrote:
> > 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.

Agreed, that'd be a useful property to preserve given how random the
repo and file names are.

- ajax


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