# Revise.jl doesn't appear to do anything

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**Created:** [February 7, 2021, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/revise-jl-doesnt-appear-to-do-anything/54788 "2021-02-07T13:07:57Z")\
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My current structure follows this example

```plaintext
my_package_repo
└── MyFirstPackage
    ├── Project.toml
    └── src
        ├── MyFirstPackage.jl
        ├── types.jl
        ├── mainalgorithm.jl
        ├── FileFormatA
        │ ├── FileFormatA.jl
        │ ├── reader.jl
        │ └── writer.jl
        ├── FileFormatB
        │ ├── FileFormatB.jl
        │ ├── reader.jl
        │ └── writer.jl
        └── display.jl

```

from [this post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-does-the-module-system-actually-work/53548/3).

> [@thofma](#):
>
> It seems what you are trying to do is rather non-standard.

I don’t know… If I’m going to have a separate package for every file, I’m either going to have some very long files, or a lot of packages.

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