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RE: Large Repository .vs Many Smaller ones..

From: Lakshman Srilakshmanan <lakshman.srilakshmanan_at_tradingpost.com.au>
Date: 2006-04-28 03:11:13 CEST

Hi Andy,

I have over 100 "modules" and I have organised them as projects based on
how they will be released.
All modules that need to be compiled and released together constitute a
project. This allows for easier tagging, branching & merging. I have at
the moment just under 100 "projects".

If a module is shared and could be compiled and release independently,
then it constitutes a project by it self.

Thanks
Lakshman

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 6:33 AM
To: bedouglas@earthlink.net
Cc: Ron; users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Large Repository .vs Many Smaller ones..

On 4/27/06, bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Good point...
>
> if all goes well, the repository will have upwards of 400-500 small
> projects, each of which would only have a few files... if each change
to a
> file, would cause the revision number to jump, i could have huge gaps
in the
> revisions numbers of a file between consecutive changes in a given
file.

This is only significant if you apply an artifical importance to
revision numbers. Revision numbers aren't meant to be used as
"checkpoints" - use tags for that. Don't get hung up on revision
numbers having real meaning.

> might have to revisit the large .vs small issue. although, from a
management
> perspective, it would be far easier to have one large repository.

As opposed to 400-500 smaller ones? Definitely. If you can break
those projects into logical units (by workgroup, company division,
platform, something like that) maybe 4 or 5 repositories would make
sense.

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