[sf-lug] directory tree organization question

[Bill Kendrick]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:19:32PM -0800, jim wrote:
> 
> crikey, ken! that's a good thought, too! 
> 
> maybe i should do both? have a top-level 
> OLD/ tree for some stuff and for other 
> stuff have OLD subdirectories, kind of 
> like the various bin/ and lib/ and other 
> directories scattered around the system. 

What about symlinks?

Have OLD/x/y/z

and then use symbolic links in your new tree...?

  x/y/z/OLD -> ~/OLD/x/y/z

*shrug*

-bill!