On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:11, Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 20:52, Tech Geek <techgeek12...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My repository path is /var/lib/svn for the SVN server. However I encountered >> a unique situation as follow: >> >> The following works: >> #svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/projectA >> >> From a svn client: >> #svn co http://svnserver/svn/projectA projectA >> >> >> However the following does NOT work: >> #mkdir /var/lib/svn/projectB/ >> #sudo svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/projectB/partA >> #sudo svnadmin create /var/lib/svn/projectB/partB >> >> From a svn client: >> #svn co http://svnserver/svn/projectB/partA partB >> >> Is it true that all the directories directly under /var/lib/svn/ should be >> an *actual* repository? > > No, they will not be a single, unified repository. You have created > two separate repositories, /var/lib/svn/projectB/partA and > /var/lib/svn/projectB/partB > >> Can't we have some pathname like "ProjectB" under >> /var/lib/svn/ and then have repositories (like PartA and PartB) under it >> without changing the root path of the repository which is /var/lib/svn? > > Subversion does not support "nesting" like this. Your repository must > be an immediate child directory of /var/lib/svn .
Edit: I should have specified this as "the path you have set as your SVNParentPath" >> How do you overcome this situation? I want PartA and PartB to be separate >> SVN repository but I do not want to place them under /var/lib/svn/ directory >> because they beloing to ProjectB and in future other projects like ProjectD >> could have PartA and PartB in the same manner. > > If PartA & PartB are part of the same project, why are they in > separate repositories in the first place? > > A more conventional approach would be: > > /var/lib/svn/ProjectB > /var/lib/svn/ProjectD > > And then PartA & PartB would be paths *inside* the ProjectB repository > - not distinct repositories themselves. > The other way you could do this, if you insist upon PartA & PartB being separate repositories, is to have a different <Location> block for each project, and specify SVNParentPath as /var/lib/svn/ProjectB . Then you could have PartA & PartB set up as separate repositories - albeit with a lot more management overhead as you add projects/repositories, and potentially more confusion.