[Zope-dev] RE: [ZODB-Dev] Subversion repository layout

[Barry Warsaw]

On Mon, 2004-04-26 at 15:48, Tim Peters wrote:
> [Jim]

> I read some subversion docs over the weekend, and so am sufficiently
> prepared to live with the oddities of "a standard" subversion layout.  I
> think that if you make a non-standard layout, then everyone coming to, or
> going from, Zope from/to other subversion projects will be forever tripping
> over the uniqueness of Zope's setup.
> 
> IOW, the existing subversion docs cover "the standard" layout quite well.
> If we do something unique, I'm afraid it becomes another piece of folklore
> that will be impossible to guess and difficult to find out about.

The other thing is that -- for me w/cvs at least -- full checkouts are
rare.  Usually I do a single checkout and then tons of updates, which
never require the paths to be given.

-Barry