On 8/25/2013 11:57 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
on Sun Aug 25 2013, Edward Diener
wrote: I am seeing at https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/StartModDev
Note: I don't know how up-to-date that page is.
that the modular Boost directory structure is:
simple include boost simple twice.hpp test twice_test.cpp Jamfile.v2 doc // from the notes on the page index.html
Is this the latest correct information ?
Sure; look at any of the library-specific repositories under http://github.com/boostorg/ for examples.
I am asking because the original recommended structure was, as I understood it:
simple boost simple twice.hpp libs simple test twice_test.cpp Jamfile.v2 doc html index.html
Original? When was that recommended, and by whom?
I don't remember exactly but I am pretty sure the above was the original recommended structure ( perhaps minus the 'html-index.html' relation which is the way SVN has been AFAIK ) in one of the main topics for "Git and Modular Boost" on the Boost Wiki in the past. I believe that Beman Dawes wrote the original topics and I would not be surprised if he is the person who has been updating them since. I know I followed the above structure when I first moved my SVN sandbox libraries to git and GitHub. So I was a little surprised to see the latest recommended structure. I just wanted to make sure the latest structure is now the official way to go.
I want to make sure I have this right before I modularize my sandbox libraries for git using the correct directory structure.
The best way to modularize sandbox libraries is to submit changes to the modularization rules described here: https://github.com/ryppl/Boost2Git/wiki
Thanks for the link. Maybe a link to Ryppl on Github from somewhere on the Boost web sire would be appropriate.
BTW I have not been able to figure out how to add and move directories using git in a local copy. Instead I have just done so using the OS and git seems to figure it out but I have a feeling I have lost git history in doing so.
You did it right; Git simply infers the move information. Git records snapshots and ancestry, and that's about it. Part of its philosophy is to be a "stupid content tracker" at its core.
Feels odd coming from SVN but if it just works its fine with me.