Recommended location of a repository and the working copy

[Angel Tsankov <fn...@fmi.uni-sofia.bg>]

Hello,

Sometimes I create a Subversion repository even for programs that I 
write for
my own usage.  In these cases, I wonder where to put the repo and the
working copy.  I usually hesitate between the following options:

-- put the working copy in "software/my_prog_1/working_copy" and the 
repository in
"software/my_prog_1/svn_repository";
-- put the working copy in "software/my_prog_1" and the repository in
"svn_repositories/my_prog_1";
-- put the working copy in "projects/my_prog_1/working_copy" and the 
repository in
"projects/my_prog_1/svn_repository";
-- put the working copy in "projects/my_prog_1" and the repository in
"svn_repositories/my_prog_1".

What locations would you recomment and why?

Regards,
Angel Tsankov

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Re: Recommended location of a repository and the working copy

[Jack Repenning <jr...@collab.net>]

On Dec 5, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Angel Tsankov wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Sometimes I create a Subversion repository even for programs that I
> write for
> my own usage.  In these cases, I wonder where to put the repo and the
> working copy.  I usually hesitate between the following options:
>
> ...
>
> What locations would you recomment and why?


I'm not sure I follow your examples closely enough to pick among them,  
but what I in fact do is this: I have a single repository for all this  
kind of stuff.  In fact, it archives the bulk of my home directory as  
well. It's stored on my home computer, physically at /svn/myname and  
accessible only via svn+ssh://user@hostname/svn/myname/ URLs. Projects  
are stored in the repo at URLs like svn+ssh://user@host/svn/myname/ 
trunk/home/src/ProjectName/.  My login directory on Unix-like systems  
is checked out from svn+ssh://user@host/svn/myname/trunk/home/, and so  
projects are checked out to my workstation (or any other computer) at  
~/src/ProjectName/.

A simpler, single-computer arrangement (and what this boils down to  
when I'm actually working on my home computer) would be

Repo Physical storage: /svn/myname
Repo URL: file:///svn/myname
Project URL: file:///svn/myname/home/src/Project

The /svn/ directory on my home computer is backed up frequently.

I do this because working copies and IDE project directories are, in  
my view, ephemeral: I may remove them at any time, I may want several  
(e.g., for different tasks or branches), I may want to use the cool  
new SVN 1.5 sparse directory features so as not to check out  
absolutely everything everywhere every time, and so on. Similarly,  
repositories are just the opposite: eternal, critical for backup, one- 
and-only-one-copy, and so on. The last thing in the world you'd want,  
it seems to me, is to have the same admin policies for the repo and  
one of its working copies!


-==-
Jack Repenning
jackrepenning@tigris.org
Project Owner
SCPlugin
http://scplugin.tigris.org
"Subversion for the rest of OS X"

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