On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sep 26, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Niklas Laxström <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> On 26 September 2012 10:08, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Another problem I found in the current setup is that its a bit 
>>> counter-intuitive how to manage the directory structure for developers. I 
>>> mean, most of us probably have this:
>>>
>>> - mediawiki
>>> - /core (clone mediawiki/core.git)
>>> - /extensions (directory with clones of individual extensions or clone of 
>>> mediawiki/extensions.git tracking repo)
>>
>> In SVN time extensions were a subdir of mediawiki core and I doubt
>> that everyone has suddenly decided to change it. At least I haven't.
>>  -Niklas
>
> No, not at all. They never were and never will.
>
> In svn we have:
>
> [mediawiki]
> - trunk/
> - - phase3/
> - - extensions/
>
> Extensions has always been besides never inside core.
>

Actually, they were back in the day, but were quickly moved out.
Early wmf repo history is fun ;-)

Fun fact for the day: we rewrote history to remove wikihiero and a
couple of other things (should've just deleted them all, grr :\) that
were making the core git repo way larger than it needed to be
(wikihiero used to have huge uncompressed images).

Compare [0] and [1]

-Chad

[0] 
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/extensions/?view=log&log_pagestart=50
[1] 
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/core.git;a=history;f=extensions;hb=HEAD

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