Best practice, working copy and repository

Please forgive the newbie question - I've just inherited a website that uses
Subversion which I have never used before.

The site I have is located in C:/Repository, and the working copy is checked
out to D:/dev-server.

My confusion comes because the repository and working copy are mirror images
of each other, all the way down to every branch and tag (of which there are
a LOT). But based on the reading I did, I thought it was more standard to
have the repository reflect all the branches, tags, snapshots, etc, and have
the working copy only containing, say, the active branch.

I am a bit afraid to even check out a branch, because I am not sure the best
procedure for checking out a branch in the working copy - do I merge it into
the trunk in the working copy, and then also merge it into the trunk in the
repository? What do I copy where?

I came up with this:

Copy C:/trunk -> C:/branch

Checkout C:/branch -> D:/samebranch

Commit (which sends everything back to the proper branch on C:)

Merge C:/branch -> C:/trunk

But I can't figure out how I get the completed D:/branch to D:/trunk. And I
can't figure out how to make sure that my working copy is the correct single
branch on D: and not the whole site or trunk.

Thanks for any insight.

-Alexis

 
Received on Mon Oct 1 16:40:55 2007