Re: early reflections on subversion methodology

On Friday 29 July 2005 03:42, Steve Williams wrote:

> > ... b) if the tools could hide these directories
> > (at least on the client side) and instead show them as 'views' - i.e.
> > the user would be in the mainline view, the branch-xyz view, the
> > release-0.8 view and so on. I don't think it would be hard to do.
>...
> As for clients hiding those directories, you would have to customize one
> of the many available clients (they are open-source after all) since
> what you are trying to hide is your own idea of a "real development"
> directory structure.

Actually, you can hide the directory of your project structure for developers
without any modification of the client:

Instead of checking out the whole repository:

svn co svn://server.domain.org/repositories/project1 whole-project1

You can just check out a trunk:

svn co svn://server.domain.org/repositories/project1/trunk project1

Or some branch:

svn co svn://server.domain.org/repositories/project1/RELEASE/version-11R6
project1-view-11R6

At your liking... :)

You can also switch your working copy between any of the branches, tags or
trunk.

Enforcement of the directory structure is a matter of project administration.
It is a very nice feature of Subversion that it does *not* impose any
directory structure on you. This was one of the reasons I chose Subversion...
Well, except for the need to have trunk/||tags/||branches/||, which is a very
mild requirement ;).

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