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Re: Storing Subversion repositories within another Subversion repository.

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:30:06 +0200

On 24.07.2009 18:15, Phillip Dann.Ward wrote:
> It is an empty repository (i.e. empty branches/tags/trunk folders, etc)
> created using "svnadmin create".
> I intend to do absolutely nothing with this empty repository once it is
> in my development repository.
> I was just wondering if there might be any side effects of doing this
> such as the development repository getting 'corrupted' if Subversion
> gets confused by seeing the empty repository inside it or perhaps the
> empty repository not being exported properly because Subversion thinks
> that it is part of (rather than just simply stored in) the development
> repository.
> Phil.

It's not supported, so you should/must not do it. Think about it:
whatever name you choose for the name of your 'internal' repository,
you'll have to create a folder with that name inside the repository. But
that repository folder is not for you to create files/folders -
Subversion might one day use its own folder with the name you chose for
your internal repository - then you're really, really screwed.

And: I can tell you right now that some svn clients will not work
correctly with such a setup (I know for sure that TSVN doesn't).

So: don't do it.

Stefan

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