I want to add a data point from a different perspective.
I've been using svn for about 3 weeks. I've been using some type of VC for at
least 10 years. I found the subversion book to be quite clear, though I do
see how users new to VC coule be confused.
The "repository" is whatever was given as the argument to "svnadmin create".
A "project" is a filesystem tree containing related files and is an
abstraction having meaning only to the users of the system.
I am finding that my users are happiest with a "1 project per repository"
mapping. My users think of a change in the version number as meaning
"something has changed that I need to know about".
Daniel
> Quoting "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>:
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Perhaps it's also a bit confusing for the newcomer that the SVN book
>> here uses "svn" as the name of an example project. When I set up my
>> repository, it might not come as too much of a surprise that I named
>> the directory "svn" ...
>
> that threw me the first time i read it as well. given that the
> subversion per-directory admin dirname is ".svn", i just naturally
> assumed there was something magic about the name "svn" as well at that
> location.
>
> more generally, i think it's important to always label examples with
> which parts have required, mandated names, and which names are
> user-chosen and arbitrary. when it comes down to it, even the
> directory names "trunk", "branches" and "tags" are flexible -- someone
> else might choose to call them "main", "br" and "tg" for all i know.
> not that i'd encourage that sort of thing, but it's stull useful to
> know that those names aren't fixed in stone.
>
> rday
>
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