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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion
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Pragmatic Guide to Subversion

by Mike Mason
November 2010
Intermediate to advanced
150 pages
2h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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45Organizing Multiple Projects

One of the most common questions asked by teams new to Subversion is, “How can we host multiple projects within a repository?” Subversion uses directories to organize projects, and directories are also used to store tags and branches, so there are many different project structures that can work.

The simplest organization strategy is to have a root-level directory for each project. Within each project directory, you should create the usual trunk, tags, and branches subdirectories. Each project is then free to evolve independently, branching and creating release tags as they see fit. If you want to share artifacts between projects, you can use Subversion externals to include directories from one project inside ...

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