Re: Two trunks in one repository?

We have hundreds of trees, each with their own trunk/ branches/ tags/ in one SVN repo. Works great. You may want to look at svn:externals. It may require re-thinking how you're using SVN a bit, but the payoff can be big. Basically you branch or tag anything shared, and load it into ProjectD using

cd ProjectD
svn propset svn:externals local/path path/to/trunk_branch_or_tag

When you change files under path/to/trunk_branch_or_tag and svn up ProjectD, changes come streaming in.

HTH,

Geoff

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From: "Tech Geek" <techgeek12345_at_gmail.com>
To: "Subversion Users" <users_at_subversion.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2010 10:38:51 AM
Subject: Two trunks in one repository?

So the concepts of trunks, branches, tags are transparent to SVN. We are in a situation where we might need to have two trunks in one SVN repository. The reason is that we have a family of projects - say ProjectA, ProjectB, ProjectC and so on, each one has it's own repository and have just one trunk (normal setup) since the each of these project has just one part.

But now let's say we have a ProjectD which has two sub-systems - PartA and PartB whose code is 95% different. So we are thinking to have two trunks inside the ProjectD repository. We would prefer not to create an individual repository for PartA and PartB because we have decided to categorize each of the repository based on the family of Projects - ProjectA, ProjectB, ProjectC, ProjectD.

Just wanted to know to get some thoughts from the experts on this mailing list regarding this setup. Any gotachs I need to watch out for?

Thanks!
Received on 2010-09-09 20:53:17 CEST