[sldev] Source directory housekeeping / organizing?

[Rob Lanphier]

On 04/20/2009 10:12 AM, Dale Mahalko wrote:
> Some people may like the flat-file view of things, without any
> folders, since it eliminates digging through a chest of drawers to
> find a few lonely socks in each one..
>
> It would be nice if one organization method or the other would win,
> rather than a mashup of some stuff in separate directories, and some
> stuff all thrown together into \newview, as it is now.
>
> Would moving files around from \newview into separate directories
> screw up the SVN versioning? Do the files just have to stay where they
> were created for SVN consistency, even if it is not ideal for
> documentation and comprehension?
>   

Sadly, it not only screws up SVN versioning, but makes merges next to
impossible.

One of the big reasons we want to move to Mercurial is to make it
feasible to do some directory reshuffling. Until we bite the bullet and
fully move over to Mercurial, we can't do this.

Rob