Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

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From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Monday, October 29, 2007 - 5:47 pm

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

Moving files about in directories should be at the /lowest/ end of the 
priority scale.  It makes diffs unreadable, file histories and diffing 
difficult, and a host of other problems.

Please solve the /real/ problems, and then come back and clean up the 
file structure after that is done.  Massive file renaming to satisfying 
some imagined future everything-is-golden scheme is the /last/ step.  It 
is the last step taken because the previous steps inevitably give you 
guidance that you otherwise would not have had at the start of the task.

When I try to diff between old and new alpha oprofile code, I really 
want to know that the reason why diffing is a pain in the ass is more 
than "it seemed like a good first step."



You can always add more letters (and words) to even reach the desired 
level of specificity.  That does nothing to help readability though.

Anyway, it should be clear from existing precedent -- existing pathnames 
-- that "instrumentation" is too long, and really IMO too vague anyway.

	Jeff


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[RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Mon Oct 29, 2:51 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Mon Oct 29, 4:04 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Oct 29, 4:20 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Mon Oct 29, 4:35 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Mon Oct 29, 4:40 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Christoph Lameter, (Mon Oct 29, 4:45 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Jeff Garzik, (Mon Oct 29, 5:47 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Mathieu Desnoyers, (Mon Oct 29, 6:38 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository), Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, (Tue Oct 30, 2:13 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Tue Oct 30, 10:24 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Peter Zijlstra, (Tue Oct 30, 10:49 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 30, 10:50 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 10:58 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Tue Oct 30, 11:56 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 30, 12:25 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Tue Oct 30, 1:40 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Sam Ravnborg, (Tue Oct 30, 2:46 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Frank Ch. Eigler, (Wed Oct 31, 8:48 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Oct 31, 9:29 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Wed Oct 31, 9:36 am)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Frank Ch. Eigler, (Wed Oct 31, 12:05 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Frank Ch. Eigler, (Wed Oct 31, 12:29 pm)
Re: [RFC] Create kinst/ or ki/ directory ?, Arjan van de Ven, (Wed Oct 31, 12:49 pm)