AW: Re: early reflections on subversion methodology

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Thomas Beale [mailto:Thomas.Beale@OceanInformatics.biz]
> Gesendet: Montag, 1. August 2005 11:42
> An: Matthew Sanderson
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Betreff: Re: early reflections on subversion methodology
>

[snip]

> >
> I haven't had the time to think an architectural solution
> through, but
> all this sounds very reasonable. One thing I am fairly sure of: there
> would not be any "tags" directory; I would simply record the
> tag against
> the revision number being tagged. Of course this mitigates
> against using
> multiple project trees in one repository, which I initially thought
> sounded good, but in the end I think is unusable; it has to be one
> project per repository. Doing otherwise renders the versioning across
> the board completely meaningless, and means that svn really is just a
> versioned file-system (and I'm not knocking that!).
>

We're using both approaches, some projects have their own repository, others share one repo and both ways are pretty much equal. Both ways offer advantages of their own kind, but I would not agree to the point that having multiple projects sharing one repository renders versioning across the board meaningless in any way. The only important point is that a version number alone does not describe a checkout, it's always the tupel (versionnumber, path) that uniquely identifies an object - even in the "one project, one repo" approach.
While we're a relativly small shop and only have like 20 developers I can't imagine major advantages of having multiple repositories, unless you have to balance the load and distribute the repositories over multiple servers.

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> - thomas beale
>
>
>

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