git conversion status

Tim Sander tim@krieglstein.org
Tue Oct 15 08:03:00 GMT 2013


Hi
> 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...
Well the scripts have to be adapted to git anyway, so why not use a 
sensible repository path (think URL) and do the conversion on clone
git clone SENSIBLE_URL src
? So the scripts are happy and the url is descriptive.

Best regards
Tim



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