Question

I’m setting up a repository for me and some colleagues.

I have a subversion repository at hand, and all required rights. The usual directory-skeleton has been set up for me (branches, tags and trunk).

Now I’m about to create a directory for me and my colleagues to put our files in. I’m quite sure the right place to put it is in trunk.

Now here and there in tutorials, I see terms like “modules” and “projects” such as in

Checking Out a Project – svn checkout

svn checkout http://host_name/svn_dir/repository_name/project/trunk proj

Is proj in the above line some glorified directory in trunk? Should I do something else than a checkout on trunk, mkdir and then commit when creating a directory for me and my colleagues?

Whats the difference between a project, a directory in trunk and a module?

Answer 1

`svn checkout http://host_name/svn_dir/repository_name/project/trunk proj`

Is proj in the above line some glorified directory in trunk?

No, it’s a top-level directory in the repository, which has tags, branches, and trunk as sub-directories. It’s checked out to a local folder ./proj. Presumably, whoever wrote this prefers not to check out tags, branches, and trunk folders, but to svn switch their checkout between them instead.