Re: [tlug] SVN: Repository vs Project

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Mark Sargent wrote:

>I'm delving into svn(got some time at work, and thought, after Josh's 
>great presentation on it, that I'd give it a shot) and was wondering, 
>the distinction between R & P.
>
A project is you concept of a working unit.  A repository is subversions
concept of a working unit.
You can have multiple projects in a repository.

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/svn-book.html#svn-ch-5-sect-6.1

>When I first add a project to a 
>repository, and then add/delete/commit/update(generalness here) files 
>etc, the revision number increases. Why does it say, in the svn book, 
>that the repository revision number increases, as opposed to the 
>project's individual revision number(if such a thing exists) when these 
>changes are made.? Can you only have the one project within a 
>repository.? If no, then why, as just asked, doesn't the project 
>revision number, as opposed to the repository as a whole, increase.? Or, 
>am I just not getting it.? Cheers.
>  
>
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#globalrev

Edward