Repository/Branch Layout

Eugene Wee eugenew at starhub.net.sg
Wed Apr 18 19:45:53 BST 2007


Hi,

Now that Bazaar has support for tags, is the tags/ directory as per the 
first suggested SVN-style layout still relevant? Renaming it to 
releases/ may be more descriptive, though it may be less "SVN-style" 
after that.

Regards,
Eugene Wee

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I went ahead and created this page:
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/SharedRepositoryLayouts
> 
> Undoubtedly it needs some cleanup, and other pages should be updated to
> reference this page.
> 
> I tried to describe the layouts that I'm aware of, and give a little bit
> of discussion why one might prefer one over the other.
> 
> All of this, however, is my opinion, and people are likely to disagree.
> I would like the page to generally have a bit of "consensus" about what
> is good/bad about different layouts.
> 
> By far the most common is the "SVN" layout, because SVN is more common
> than Bazaar so most people are familiar and comfortable with it. (well,
> that an the "all branches in a single directory" layout).
> 
> Eventually we should take the document and add it to the source tree
> (doc/*.txt). But for now, I wanted to get feedback by putting it on the
> wiki.
> 
> John
> =:->



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