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> From: news [mailto:news_at_ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of wimpunk
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:21 AM
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Repository construction
>
> Hi,
>
> A college has a rather strange idea on setting up his repository and
> I'm
> wondering if it will cause any troubles for subversion since I'm the
> administrator.
> He's used working with SourceSafe and now he's planning to use a
> directory structure looking like this:
>
> project/major/module/minor/version
>
> Personally I would remove major, minor and version from the structure
> but he really wants it that way. When he starts a new major, he
> creates
> the substructure again and copies the latest version to this major.
That's fine. Subversion copies are very lightweight and fast.
svn copy svn://.../project/1.0 svn://.../project/2.0
>
> As far as I understand, there's no server-side objection doing this.
> For subversion is doesn't matters where you create your branch. Is
> this
> correct?
> Will it differ at the server size concerning the size of the db if we
> use a more normal construction like this:
>
> project/module/{trunk,branches,tags}
No real issues to worry about. However there will be some potential
awkwardness.
- Checking out project/major will get every module and every module's
minor versions. =P You might want to let the user know about the 'svn
co -N' option to selectively checkout just what he wants to work on.
- Merging between minors should be easy
Svn merge ... svn://.../project/1.0/module/minor/version
- but merging an entire major or module won't be
svn merge ... svn://.../project/1.0/
since it will merge every minor version also.
- he will need to create a branches or tags directory at some point, if
just for experimental throwaway code.
svn copy svn://.../project/2.0
svn://.../project/branches/modify_to_use_new_3rd_party_library
Honestly, the directory structure he uses would seem to be just as
awkward in VSS.
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Received on 2008-03-07 18:08:38 CET