Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Friday 07 March 2008, wimpunk wrote:
>> 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
>
> I would have to do some guessing in order to understand what each element is
> supposed to represent. So, in order to discuss this in any way, your
> colleague should first establish a (written!) description how he wants to use
> this and how his setup would handle things like version numbers, tags,
> releases, (feature-)branches etc.
You're pretty correct on this point and I'm almost sure he has this
discription written down. He came to me to install the linux server and
he showed me what he planned to do. I worried about the server side
effects and that's why I made the original post.
>
>> 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.
>
> What is a 'major'? What is a 'project'? What is a 'module'? Any discussion
> without first defining these terms is pointless.
The points are defined, I just wanted to make it more abstract to the
list to make it easier to understand. So here's a more detailed
description:
* project: industry this application is made for
* major: number based on the kernel version of the hardware
* module: part of the project
* minor: mostly main but can be split for a customer
* version: starts with 00 and changes when a service pack for the kernel
is applied or an extra feature is added.
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes.
>
>> 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}
>
> Not really. Server-side copies are cheap, regardless of the layout of the
> repository.
>
> Uli
>
This was my biggest question so I didn't thought giving a more detailed
description would make any sense. I'm happy to know I should not worry
about the server side effects.
Kind regards,
wimpunk.
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