I have been working on a project for some time, and it has branched off into several different versions. All versions have some common code base, and each version has specific functionality that is unique, and each version will need to be supported individually.
What SVN structure would you recommend? Right now I am using a separate repository for each project, but the downside of that is that it is impractical for large number of products. The downside of using a single repository with branches is that it would add revision numbers to every branch whether anything was committed, regardless from which branch.
What setup do you/would you use in this situation?
Most definitely the same repository. Since there is common functionality, you will commonly move code from one project to the other. Moving files within a repository retains their history, moving them across repositories doesn’t.
I don’t see why having revisions on a branch skip numbers would be problem.
For reference: At work, all projects from the entire software engineering department (60 coders) are in the same svn repository.