> -----Original Message----- > From: Bo Berglund [mailto:bo.bergl...@gmail.com] > Sent: 06 December 2017 07:45 > > It seems like in SVN there must be separate repository folders for tags, > branches and trunk below > each project. > To me this implies that svn is only able to do these operations at the very > top of a project tree, is > that really so? > I am coming from CVS(NT) and it was always possible to do the tagging and > branching for *anything* > inside a project tree. For example a subtree could be branced and tagged > independently from the main > project. > Is this not possible in SVN? > If so, how can I convert my CVS repository to SVN correctly, while preserving > these properties? > We have used this on many places, for example branching out only a single > file or two in a directory > while leaving the other files on TRUNK. > Then at a later time when all is checked we merged the changes back into > TRUNK. > Is this not possible in svn? > > -- > Bo Berglund > Developer in Sweden
No doubt others will answer more eloquently but svn imposes no restrictions on the meaning of any folder, the trunk/tags/branch triumvirate is just a convention. You can read the online book for more information: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.tour.importing.html#svn.tour.importing.layout ~ Mark C
