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Re: Resources to help design a subversion repository

From: Carl Lerche <clerche_at_tarot.com>
Date: 2007-01-25 18:26:06 CET

Russ,

This definitely does help. Thanks for sharing how you have setup svn
for your projects. If anybody else has any other ways of setting up
repositories or any other insight, I would much appreciate hearing it.

-carl

On Jan 24, 2007, at 4:47 PM, Russ wrote:

> Carl,
>
> I recommend you install trac, and keep all the change requests in
> there. We've been using 2 approaches, for a site that has a bunch
> of small fixes/additions, both dev and production are checked out
> working copies of the trunk. For small changes, changes are done
> directly on trunk and pushed to prd. For larger changes, we create
> a tag and a branch based on the ticket number and after its done,
> its merged into the trunk and pushed to prd.
>
> For another project, we are working on a large revamp, so dev
> points to trunk, while production points to a branch. Bigfixes are
> done on the branch and pushed out to production. They are also
> merged into the trunk.
>
> When we're done with the large redevelopment, we plan to point prd
> to trunk again.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>
> Russ
> Sent wirelessly via BlackBerry from T-Mobile.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Carl Lerche" <clerche@tarot.com>
> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:28:38
> To:<users@subversion.tigris.org>
> Subject: Resources to help design a subversion repository
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've been a casual user of subversion for a while (just doing basic
> developer functions, check out, check in, branching, etc...). I'm
> going to
> be in charge of designing from the ground up a new repository
> layout for the
> massive amount of source code my coworkers and I deal with.
>
> I was wondering if anybody could point me to any good resources,
> books, or
> anything that could help me as I read up as much as possible about
> designing
> an SVN repository as well as just good source code management
> procedure
> (this is for a web application, so anything that might cover how to
> manage
> the source code for a massive web application would help. For example,
> branching the trunk for various projects then merging / integrating
> it back
> to the trunk, deployment from subversion, etc...).
>
> Just off the top of my head, the way I would set it up would be
> have the
> trunk and make each person / group working on a project to branch
> from the
> trunk to develop the project and then merge back into trunk when
> they are
> done. Like this, the release # that the branch was merged to is the
> one that
> is deployed. Hopefully this makes sense.
>
> Anyway, I would like to research more into this, so any resources are
> welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> -carl
>
>
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