Part 7Setting Up a Server

Subversion stores your files inside a repository, which itself is just a collection of files on a disk somewhere. Subversion allows you to create an arbitrary directory structure inside the repository to organize your projects and files. Usually a repository will contain multiple projects, each inside their own directory. The top level of a repository like this will contain a directory for each project, and then each of the project directories will contain the usual trunk, tags, and branches directories. Alternatively, you might have a repository dedicated to each project. In this type of repository, the trunk, tags, and branches directories appear at the top level of the repository.

This might sound like a complicated ...

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