Hi, Simon, thanks for your reply.
First, I assure you I have read the SVN book, most of it. Well, much
of it, anyway. Which is why I'm puzzled at the difference between
what I see and what I expect.
I was going to get all elaborate with this, when I realized that
TortoiseSVN is operating flawlessly and since my question really boils
down to "Why does SVN create a "branches" directory if it's not going
to use it, instead storing all revisions, including those that create
a branch, reside in the repository database?", then the question
really isn't for you to answer.
So I apologize for taking your time.
On May 15, 8:28 am, Simon Large <simon.tortoise..._at_googlemail.com>
wrote:
> On 15 May 2010 02:38, Wayne Freeman <wfree..._at_analyticabiz.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > This is a little scary.
>
> > I have several repositories on a Linux server. Some of them I created
> > through SVN on the server itself, before I installed TortoiseSVN. The
> > rest, I have created using TortoiseSVN, including some branches to the
> > originals.
>
> How did you create that branch?
>
> > Everything is visible through the Repo Browser in TortoiseSVN, and
> > everything appears to be working just fine.
>
> > However, if I navigate to the repository directory either on the Linux
> > box or through Windows Explorer where TortoiseSVN resides, I don't see
> > anything that I have created and have been maintaining through
> > TortoiseSVN, including (and here's the scary part) the backed-up
> > repository directory on my backup drive.
>
> What are you expecting to see? The repository is a binary database
> with lots of sub-directories and files, but nothing that would
> resemble your files.
>
> > For example, an ls command of the "branches" directory on the Linux
> > box says it's empty. But Repo Browser says it's not.
>
> When you say the 'branches' directory, do you mean a separate
> repository or have you created a subdirectory within the repository
> folder?
>
> > How can I make sure that all of my repositories are being backed up if
> > I can't see them? I can see that the revs that apply to the
> > "invisible" repositories and branches are being backed up, but is that
> > enough?
>
> I would *strongly* recommend reading the subversion book to find out
> what it is all about.
>
> Simon
>
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