It's arguably smoother to keep them close to the source, as that's where one's working when modifying them. More importantly, though, is the ability to use private headers in the src/ dir that simply include "git/$samename.h" to get to the public API at the same time. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>