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Re: on per-package trunk/ directory



On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:31:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > I'm not saying that we don't need tags/ and brunches/. I'm only saying
> > that two nested "trunk" path components are overkilling and useless, as
> > in:
> >   /trunk/packages/ledit/trunk/debian/...
> >    ^^^^^                ^^^^^
<snip>
> >   /tags/packages/ledit/6.6.6/debian/...
> This, one, yes.

Well, my commit did not change anything about that, it only moved from

  /trunk/packages/ledit/trunk/debian/...

to

  /trunk/packages/ledit/debian/...

> >   /branches/packages/ledit/6.6.6/debian/...
> 
> This one i believe (and from experience dealing with branches) is overkill,
> and it is best suited to have it in the same dir as trunk.

Doing so will turn once more in a lot of disk usage, but see below.

>   /trunk/packages/ledit/sid/debian
>   /trunk/packages/ledit/sarge/debian
>   /trunk/packages/ledit/3.08/debian
> 
> And so on. but we can keep the trunk dir, or call it head, or even make head a
> symlink to the currently developing stuff (don't know how subversion deals
> with symlinks though).

subversion handle symlinks correctly so I think this is the best
solution. Having tags and branches in some "random place" with symlink
for tags and/or branches frequently used. In this way we get the two:
less disk usage for people who wants trunk/ only and quick access to
tags and branches for people developing on them.

> But again, i did in other projects, both the two above organizations, and i
> believe that having the branches in the main dir is the better one.
> 
> Also, you would do :
> 
> svn co ..../trunk OCAML-SVN

I believe you could do the same if they are symlinks, but I did not
tried.

Cheers.

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