Nick and Olivier, thank you very much. That clarifies things for me. It
would be great if the SVN book authors would consider adding this advice
to the book.
Regards,
Gregory
nicklist_at_planet.nl wrote:
>
> Basicly it would be something like:
>
> svnadmin create <repo>
>
> svn co file://<repo>
> cd <repo>
> svn mkdir trunk
> svn mkdir branches
> svn mkdir tags
> svn ci -m "Initial layout"
> rm <repo>
>
> svn co <repo>/trunk <repo>
> cd <repo>
>
> And you'll have a checkout of the trunk.
>
> This assumes one trunk/branches/tags setup per repository, the more
> common layout would be multiple trunk/branches/tags setups per repository.
>
> So, repository layout would be:
>
> <repository>
> <project-a>
> trunk
> branches
> tags
> <project-b>
> trunk
> branches
> tags
>
> etc, etc, etc. I guess you can figure out how to setup such a
> repository following the instructions in the first part of the mail.
> (Hint: use svn mkdir <project-a> )
>
> Hth,
>
> Nick S.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Garretson [mailto:gregory_at_garretson.info]
> Sent: Fri 4/11/2008 13:55
> To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: How to set up project directories--SVN book confusion
>
> I'm just getting started with Subversion, so please pardon this
> low-level question. I've read the Subversion book, which is generally
> excellent, but it has caused me to be confused about how to set up a
> project.
>
> In Chapter 5 on "Repository Administration", the book talks about the
> virtual filesystem in which data is stored. Then it goes on to discuss
> "directory hierarchies within the repositories themselves", and how you
> might want to set up your repository, with trunk, branch, and tags
> directories. What is not made clear is whether these are (a) directories
> in the svn virtual filesystem, or (b) directories in the actual OS
> filesystem (prior to checkout).
>
> If they are intended to really be OS directories, the description is
> very misleading, since it doesn't say where these should be in relation
> to all the other files in the repository, or whether you're meant to set
> them up elsewhere in the filesystem.
>
> If they are intended to be directories in the virtual filesystem, there
> is no dicussion of how to go about creating them. Going back to Chapter
> 2, "Basic Usage", there is a section called "Recommended repository
> layout", which is a summary of what is said in Chapter 5 and sends you
> back there for further information. Then it goes on to tell you how to
> do a checkout, which presupposes that the repository has already been
> set up. There is a section on importing into a repository, but it
> doesn't respect the trunk-branches-tags advice given in the following
> section, so it's hard to see how those relate to each other.
>
> So, as briefly as I can phrase it, here is my question: What is the
> proper way to create from scratch an svn project using the
> trunk-branches-tags setup?
>
> Maybe I've missed something rather obvious. That's certainly possible;
> if so, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Gregory
>
>
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