<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 March 2011 13:04, Martin A. Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@antibodymx.net">martin@antibodymx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, March 26, 2011 20:22, David Halliday wrote:<br>
> Hi, further to today's demo I have updated my notes on SVN:<br>
> <a href="http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:subversion_server" target="_blank">http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:subversion_server</a><br>
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> <<a href="http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:subversion_server" target="_blank">http://david-halliday.co.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=linux:scripts:subversion_server</a>>I<br>
> think I have removed all the smelling pistakes, but dyslexia being what it<br>
> is (and spell checkers being what they are) I can't make any promises that<br>
> howlers aren't in the document.<br>
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</div>From a purely technical point of view, the language of your make ttrunk,<br>
tags and branches seem "special". From svn's point of view, they're not.<br>
They're just directories containing $stuff. The only reason they're<br>
"special" is in the head of the user and could equally well be called<br>
knurt, sgat and sehcnarb.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes and no. While they are directories in the repository and for the most part no different there are two aspects to using the three defined names:</div><div>1: They are considered uniform (New person starts on your project or you go to a new project) if everyone uses the same terms then the learning curve of a new project is smaller. It makes life easier when you are searching for help/tutorials.</div>
<div>2: Most clients recognise "trunk", "branches" and "tags" and prioritise/organise options around what you have selected etc... And when it comes to tags the server (and most clients) do return messages saying "This is a tag, you probably aren't supposed to change this, are you sure you want to?" </div>
<div><br></div><div>For those two reasons while you can call the directories anything you like, it is the sensible option to stick with those predefined names.</div></div>