Many customers with few changes to source

Hi,

I red the svnbook but I came to no conclusion for my problem.
It is not a technical problem, it is more general.

On the one hand, we've a source tree with thousands of files and folders. On

the other hand we've many customers and these require some changes to the
programm.

So far we used visual source safe (but it sucks) and we had a structure like
that:

\trunk => c:\trunk
\trunk\our_programm => c:\trunk\our_programm
\trunk\our_programm\customer_1 => c:\trunk\our_programm
\trunk\our_programm\customer_2 => c:\trunk\our_programm
\trunk\our_programm\customer_3 => c:\trunk\our_programm
\trunk\our_programm\customer_4 => c:\trunk\our_programm
\trunk\our_programm\customer_5 => c:\trunk\our_programm

So if I have to code for customer_3 I do 2 steps:
a) get latest version of \trunk\our_programm
b) get latest version of \trunk\our_programm_customer_3

because of the two folders are mapped to the same directory, I have the
source and the changes for customer 3.
If I want to "check in" something I look if the file exists in the customer
folder, and if yes I update that file there.

I'm not sure what the possible solution of these problem could be.
May be the approach to the basic requirement (special code for customers) is
totally wrong for subversion.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Oliver

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Received on Fri Feb 18 11:17:44 2005