Re: Multiple projects on one system?

--Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> wrote:

> I have a suite of programs I've created that includes the server programs
> that retrieve and sort data, a client program that goes on other
> people's computers, a setting editor, and a few configuration
> directories. I'm self taught, so I set everything up as it worked for
> me as I learned and did more. I have one master directory, then, within
> that, I have directories for the executables for the server. Also
> within the master directory, I have directory trees for the client
> program and setting editor, as well as different directories for
> configuration files.
>
> It appears to me that if I want to include all of these in Subversion,
> I'd have to do it as one project. I'd prefer, if possible, to have 4
> separate projects. When I look at examples in the book though, where a
> file is committed by a name to a specified repository, I'm not clear if
> that is enough for Subversion to keep them all separate as different
> projects.

Subversion does have any "concept" of a project. Within a repository there
are folders. Each folder could considered be a separate project; that
depends on the meaning you assign it and how you use it.

>From what you've described, it would make sense to have all of your code in
one repository. You already have it divided into folders for the server
piece, the client piece, the editor, etc. You will be able to check out any
portion of the system that you want, by specifying the folder.

Assuming you might release a new version of the server code without having
to change the client code, and vise versa, I suggest the following
structure:

repository
    server
        trunk
        branches
        tags
    client
        trunk
        branches
        tags

etc.

[...]

> So is keeping a number of separate projects on one system in subversion
> easily doable?

Definitely. Each project lives in a separate folder.

--
Bruce Webber
brucewebber@fastmail.us
http://brucewebber.us
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