On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:59, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>> And what do you gain? There's little advantage to having a repository
>> per project.
>
> One of the key advantages of having one repository per project is the
> ability to take a particular project offline and archive it at some point in
> the future.

Smells like YAGNI except for the "disk space at a premium" below.

> This is important in setups where disk space use is likely to be significant
> over time, such as when working with graphics within a project, or other
> binary data that cannot be efficiently stored as diffs.

That's the only good reason I can see: projects that are so inherently
different that sharing is not going to happen.

> This can also be important where disk space is at a premium, such as when
> disk space is hosted by a third party.

Fair enough (although I would be very uncomfortable having the crown
jewels under the control of some 3rd party).

You mention a very special use case for which I would agree with your
assessment. Usually, Subversion stores code in a local environment and
multiple repositories don't make sense there. It's just more work.

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