Question

I am about to set up a subversion server to be accessed via svn+ssh. I was wondering, where the default repository location is (on a unix box).

Do you put it in

/opt/svn 

or

/home/svn 

or

/usr/subversion 

or even

/svn 

or somewhere else?

I am looking for the place, most people put it. Is there a convention?

EDIT:

It is absolutely possible to ‘hide’ the actual repository location from the user. For example (in my case) by wrapping the svnserve executable in a way that it is called like:

svnserve -r /var/svn/repos 

Answer 1

I typically place the repositories somewhere under /var, usually in /var/lib/svn – I’m trying to follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard which has this to say about the purpose of /var:

/var is specified here in order to make it possible to mount /usr read-only. Everything that once went into /usr that is written to during system operation (as opposed to installation and software maintenance) must be in /var.