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Re: Having a path name after specifying repository location

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:11:38 -0400

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 20:52, Tech Geek <techgeek12345_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My repository path is /var/lib/svn for the SVN server. However I encountered
> a unique situation as follow:
>
> The following works:
> #svnadmin create  /var/lib/svn/projectA
>
> From a svn client:
> #svn co http://svnserver/svn/projectA%a0projectA
>
>
> However the following does NOT work:
> #mkdir /var/lib/svn/projectB/
> #sudo svnadmin create  /var/lib/svn/projectB/partA
> #sudo svnadmin create  /var/lib/svn/projectB/partB
>
> From a svn client:
> #svn co http://svnserver/svn/projectB/partA%a0partB
>
> Is it true that all the directories directly under /var/lib/svn/ should be
> an *actual* repository?

No, they will not be a single, unified repository. You have created
two separate repositories, /var/lib/svn/projectB/partA and
/var/lib/svn/projectB/partB

> Can't we have some pathname like "ProjectB" under
> /var/lib/svn/ and then have repositories (like PartA and PartB) under it
> without changing the root path of the repository which is /var/lib/svn?

Subversion does not support "nesting" like this. Your repository must
be an immediate child directory of /var/lib/svn .

> How do you overcome this situation? I want PartA and PartB to be separate
> SVN repository but I do not want to place them under /var/lib/svn/ directory
> because they beloing to ProjectB and in future other projects like ProjectD
> could have PartA and PartB in the same manner.

If PartA & PartB are part of the same project, why are they in
separate repositories in the first place?

A more conventional approach would be:

/var/lib/svn/ProjectB
/var/lib/svn/ProjectD

And then PartA & PartB would be paths *inside* the ProjectB repository
- not distinct repositories themselves.
Received on 2010-10-20 18:12:58 CEST

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