On May 16, 2005, at 4:29 AM, barophobia wrote:
> On 5/16/05, Max Bowsher <maxb@ukf.net> wrote:
>
>> In answer to your subject line - there's nothing ruined here, it
>> appears you
>> are just confused about what directory structure is actually
>> contained
>> within your repository, and about what various commands actually do.
>
> Confused? Definitely! :)
>
> Within my repository I don't see anything pertaining to my different
> projects. Isn't that how it's supposed to be?
It is if that is how YOU decided to layout your repository.
Subversion doesn't decide what the directory structure looks like -
you do.
> I mean, isn't everything
> stored in a berkeley db?
That's irrelevant, and not always true.
>> Exactly. The above is broadly equivalent to:
>> svn mkdir -m "initial import" file:///home/chris/programs/trunk
>> file:///home/chris/programs/tags file:///home/chris/programs/branches
>>
>> Since those directories already exist in your repository, svn
>> naturally
>> produced an error.
>
> Makes sense. Except that I thought every project needed those
> directories. Do they not?
No, they don't. Subversion doesn't care at all what directories you
have in your repo structure. It will happily keep track of whatever
structure you decide to make.
>> Certainly. You don't have a project actually called 'project',
>> after all.
>
> That is correct, but I also tried changing 'project' to 'mymoney'
> and got:
>
> [chris_at_localhost ~]$ svn list --verbose file:///home/chris/programs/
> mymoney
> svn: URL 'file:///home/chris/programs/mymoney' non-existent in that
> revision
You didn't look at the output of svn list... it doesn't show any
directory named "mymoney" either.
> svn list --verbose file:///home/chris/programs
>
> And get back:
>
> 1 chris Mar 30 22:11 branches/
> 6 chris Apr 02 15:53 http/
> 6 chris Apr 02 15:53 shared/
> 1 chris Mar 30 22:11 tags/
> 8 chris Apr 16 17:43 trunk/
>
> What?? I expected it to list my two projects.
It seems you didn't put directories in your repository for your
projects. It looks like you have a repository with the typical
layout of a one project per repository scheme. Look deeper to see
what is in the 'trunk' folder for example.
>> First, understand that a project is nothing more than a directory.
>> Now,
>> realize that you can arrange directories within a repository
>> however you
>> like.
>>
>
> My question to this goes back to the berkeley db question above.
Normally you don't interact directly with the database backend.
Forget about it.
>> So, the fact that you saw something you didn't expect just means
>> you have
>> arranged your repository in a different way than you thought you had.
>
> How can I get back on track?
Start with 'svn list'. Use it to see the structure that you actually
stored in Subversion. And read the Subversion book.
Scott
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Received on Mon May 16 15:08:41 2005