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RE: Recommended Subversion Repository Structure

From: Gale, David <David.Gale_at_Hypertherm.com>
Date: 2006-03-24 17:33:05 CET

Jay Lessik wrote:
> I'm new to subversion so forgive me if this question
> is newbie-ish...
>
> I know that project repository structure has been
> discussed on this list and I've read a lot of the
> posts, but I wasn't able to find a clear answer to the
> question of which of the following is better?
>
> repository/
> projectA/
> trunk/
> branches/
> tags/
> projectB/
> trunk/
> branches/
> tags/
>
> OR...
>
> repository/
> trunk/
> projectA/
> projectB/
> branches/
> projectA/
> projectB/
> tags/
> projectA/
> projectB/
>
> The documentation recommends the first structure as do
> a lot of other sites and people on this list, but this
> post
> (http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-04/1870.shtml)
> seems to recommend the second structure and lists some
> good reasons... Would using the second structure
> cause problems down the road? I don't want to have to
> reorganize my repository later when I find out I can't
> do something or something isn't working properly...

They both work, and both allow (roughly) the same reorganization
possibilities. The thing to be aware of is that, at least until SVN
supports true renames, reorganizing your repository is painful--anyone
who has checked out your code may need to delete their working copies
and re-checkout, especially if they've been working on a moved file.

Personally, I'd examine how closely ProjectA and ProjectB are related;
if they're not at all, consider setting up two repositories (one for
each). Short of that, I'd tend to go with the second repository model
(repos/{trunk/tags/branches}/{project...}), as that's clearer to me,
though the distinction is small; one of the few instances where it'll
come up is checkouts:

svn co <repos>/trunk/projA
...creates a directory named "projA", whereas
svn co <repos>/projA/trunk
...creates a directory named "trunk", which is hardly helpful.
Especially since you can then switch it to a branch directory, and
confuse everyone. Of course, you can get around this by always
explicitly setting a directory name, but why bother?

$.02, please. And some salt.
-David

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