Ryan Schmidt wrote on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 at 17:10 -0600:
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> On Jan 25, 2010, at 07:25, trans wrote:
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> > Is it possible to keep tags/ and branches/ in the trunk/ so as not to
> > have to differentiate these three at the top of a repository.
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> I'm going to go with a firm "no" on this one. Do not attempt to do
> this. Instead, follow the standard layout.
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> In your scheme, not only, as you've noticed, would checking out the
> trunk also check out all branches and all tags, which would be
> wasteful,
+1. (If you think for a moment, it's going to be O(n^2) in the number of
branches/tags.)
> it also prevents you from using the usual way to create tags, i.e.
> copying the trunk to the branches or tags directory -- in your scheme,
> you can't do this, because you can't copy a directory into itself.
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> $ svn cp trunk trunk/branches/foo
> svn: Cannot copy path 'trunk' into its own child 'trunk/branches/foo'
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Works with URLs:
% svn cp ^/trunk/ ^/trunk/foo -mr2
Committed revision 2.
% svn up
A foo
A foo/A
A foo/A/B
A foo/A/B/lambda
A foo/A/B/E
A foo/A/B/E/alpha
A foo/A/B/E/beta
A foo/A/B/F
A foo/A/mu
A foo/A/C
A foo/A/D
A foo/A/D/gamma
A foo/A/D/G
A foo/A/D/G/pi
A foo/A/D/G/rho
A foo/A/D/G/tau
A foo/A/D/H
A foo/A/D/H/chi
A foo/A/D/H/omega
A foo/A/D/H/psi
A foo/iota
Updated to revision 2.
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