Hello

I don't have deep experience with source control, and would
like to use TortoisSVN on a local host, ie. with no server.

Although I didn't like the fact that any change to the repository,
even when it involved a different project, increased the revision
number, I read in the documentation that it wasn't really not that big
a deal: Just write down that public release 1.0 maps to such and such
revision number in SVN, and that's it.

But... I just imported and commited a file that has a name that
already exists in another project in the repository... and SVN failed
because of this :-/

"Error: File already exists: filesystem C:/Repository/db', transaction
'10-1', path '/my_proj2/Project1.cfg'

=> Do you confirm that having a single repository to host more than
one project means that filenames must be identical throughout all the
projects? IOW, you must set up one repository per project to avoid
filename clashing?

And if you know of a good, short, no-brainer guide to working with
SVN, I'm interested.

Thank you.

Vincent Delporte <justask@acme.com> wrote:

in fact revision numbers are very usefull in a long run ...


i haven't noticed such problems with keeping several eclipse projects
in the same repository. Each project had standard eclipse/ant/etc
configuration files.


just create a separete folder for each project in the repository root.


SVN redbook: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/


You welcome

rgds,
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On 12 Sep 2006 07:35:07 GMT, Marek TROFIMIUK <mt20863@sgh.waw.pl>
wrote:

I'm sure they are. What I meant is that if you use a single repository
(which is the default, and I was told it was OK to host several
projects in one repo), the revision number will increase even when
someone commits stuff in a different project, ie. even if nothing
changed in the project you're working on.


That's what I think I did: When importing a project when
right-clicking on a folder in Windows Explorer:

file:///C:/Repository/my_new_project/

Isn't this a new folder? Do I need to do something else when adding a
new project?


Thanks for the link.

Vincent Delporte <justask@acme.com> wrote:

but it's doesn't change anything in other projects.
SVN server stores information about rev numbers for each file.

in repo browser you can create the folder structure before importing data
i think the book recommends folder structure with truck, branches and
tags directories. you can also browse the public repo of the apache
fundation at http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/.

rgrds,
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Marek TROFIMIUK wrote:

Not so. Read the section on Revisions in the svnbook. Subversion
increments the repository revision for each checkin. The entire repo
has the same revision. So checking in a change to a file will
increment the repository's revision.

Revisions:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/...n-ch-2-sect-3.2
A deeper explanation:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/...svn-ch-3-sect-3

Note: A working copy may have mixed revisions and you can create
branches and tags from mixed revsions.



Branching and merging:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/...k.html#svn-ch-4


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