[ZODB-Dev] Re: Subversion repository layout

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

Jim,

> The standard subversion repository layout is by project:

...

When I came to subversion over a year ago, they said that either way was 
okay with the convention. Also, "standard" is not necessarily what the 
book says. For Kupu we use the same layout you suggested, with the 
variation of having a top-level trunk dir.

> I suggest, instead to use the following layout:

...

> With this layout, when you want to checkout the main development
> branch (aka head) of ZODB, you do:
> 
>   svn co svn+ssh://svn.zope.org/repos/ZODB
> 
> which seems cleaner and less error prone.

+1

> The only disadvantage I see in this layout is that we couldn't have
> projects named "tags" or "branches", but I could live with that.
> Alternatively, we could have a top-level trunk directory:

Yes, I would like that. The reason is very simple. If we are going to 
differ from the "standard" layout (I still think that that's not the 
case), then we should at least provide the same names and hierarchical 
entities: trunk, tags, branches.

A note on branches and tags:

Since they are directories in Subversion and live in different 
namespaces so to speak, we will not have to rely on ugly naming 
conventions anymore. Branches won't need the "-branch" suffix anymore, 
since they're already in the branches/ directory. Tags won't have to be 
all uppercase either, and tags for releases can look quite normally, 
such as "Zope-3.0.1" instead of "ZOPE_3_0_1".

Philipp