Mass git migration

[Donnie Berkholz]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:08:34PM -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
>> Finally, there's the issue of naming, prefixes and postfixes.  Looking
>> at the modules that have already been converted, it looks like
>> libraries have (re-) gained a 'lib' prefix (xorg-lib-libXrandr) and
>> proto modules are now lowercase with 'proto' suffixes
>> (xorg-proto-damageproto).  There was a fair bit of discussion about
>> naming during the modularization process and what's in CVS now is what
>> was agreed on.  I haven't seen any reasoning for adding this
>> redundancy to the module names, plus it'd be a pain to support in the
>> script.  So the script doesn't do that, and I'm suggesting we should
>> rename the few git repositories that have been converted.  Note that
>> while changing git history is practically infeasible, just changing a
>> repo name isn't a big deal.
> 
> The module name is, in the libXrandr case, 'libxrandr'.  /xorg/lib is
> just extraneous path information.  Having the tarball name as the module
> name seems to be relatively sensible to me.

Exactly. In the CVS world, the lib/ prefix was actually part of the
repository. In git, the repository is just 'libxrandr', so it makes
sense to me to change this upon a migration to git since there is no
further path in the repository to provide information.

Thanks,
Donnie

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