June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
319 pages
12h 58m
English
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If a repository contains multiple projects, admins typically index their layout by
project (see “Choosing a Repository Layout” in Chapter 5 to read more about project
roots):
/paint/trunk
/paint/branches
/paint/tags
/calc/trunk
/calc/branches
/calc/tags
Of course, you’re free to ignore these common layouts. You can create any sort of
variation, whatever works best for you or your team. Remember that whatever you
choose, it’s not a permanent commitment. You can reorganize your repository at any
time. Because branches and tags are ordinary directories, the
svn move command can
move or rename them however you wish. Switching from one layout to another is
just a matter of issuing a series of server-side moves; if you don’t like the way things
are organized in the repository, just juggle the directories around.
Remember, though, that while moving directories may be easy to do, you need to be
considerate of your users as well. Your juggling can be disorienting to users with exist-
ing working copies. If a user has a working copy of a particular repository directory,
your
svn move operation might remove the path from the latest revision. When the
user next runs
svn update, they’ll be told that their working copy represents a path
that no longer exists, and the user will be forced ...
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