Re: subversion repository structure

[Colin D Bennett]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:54:44 +0200
"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Thank all of you for making effort on moving the version control
> system to Subversion. I think this is a big improvement, and I like
> it.
> 
> Now, I would like to talk about the structure. Currently, it looks
> like this:
> 
> trunk/
>       grub/
>       grub2/
> tags/
>       release*/
> branches/
>       prepare*/
> 
> IMO, this is not very convenient. This means that, when we want to
> create, say, version 1.99, we would tag both grub and grub2. This
> does not sound good to me.
> 
> So, I think that this would be more appropriate:
> 
> grub/
>       trunk/
>       tags/
>       branches/
> grub2/
>       trunk/
>       tags/
>       branches/
> 
> Since grub and grub2 are totally different, it would be better to
> segregate them completely this way.
> 
> What is your opinion?

I agree!  Your suggestion seems very logical.

Can we simply copy trunk/grub2 to grub2/trunk (and so on for the other
"branches")?  Then those of us mirroring the subversion tree might be
able to just switch to the new URL for trunk... I hope.

Regards,
Colin