Usage advice - personal branches

I've been using SVN for about 12 months now, but I'd like some advice for
laying out busy, multi user repositories.

We have a policy of committing often (as savepoints, in case of source code
corruption - we use MS Visual Studio....!). This means that 70% or more of
revisions don't leave trunk in a 'good' state, and work is only partially
finished. Obviously this is a pain.

What I'm planning is to have a branch inside each project, for each
person working on the system. ie:

AmazingProject1
-trunk
-branches
--John
--Peter
--Jane

During normal work developers only commit to their branch (hence no problem
with 'savepoint' commits). When a feature is fully implemented it is merged
into trunk (and also trunk changes are merged into the personal branch).

Is this the best option? Or should I look at some form of distributed
version control system? In some ways I'd like my working copy to belong to
two seperate repo's: a personal, local one for regular savepoints, and a
central one for sharing.

Thanks,

John

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Received on Sat Jul 9 17:47:14 2005