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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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5Creating an Empty Project

Most Subversion users won’t often need to create a project—that’s usually done by a systems administrator or a third-party hosting company. If the project is already set up and you know the URL, you can jump to Task 7, Checking Out a Working Copy.

Subversion uses directories as its basic unit of organization, dividing the repository into different projects. By convention, all Subversion projects have trunk, tags, and branches directories directly within the project’s root directory. If you had two projects, Kithara and Sesame, you would end up with the following directory structure:

  • /Kithara/trunk
  • /Kithara/tags
  • /Kithara/branches
  • /Sesame/trunk
  • /Sesame/tags
  • /Sesame/branches

The trunk directory is where all the main development ...

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