[ZODB-Dev] Re: Subversion repository layout

[Casey Duncan]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:36:25 -0400
Tres Seaver <tseaver at zope.com> wrote:

> Jim Fulton wrote:
[..]
> +1 to following the "standard" layout (as Jim and I have discussed 
> face-to-face):
> 
>    - "Explicit is better than implicit."  It is *not* a "dead chicken"
>      to specify the trunk if that is what you want.
> 
>    -  Following the "currently-accepted best practice" proposed by the
>       SVN folks may have issues (I don't understand why anyone would
>       *ever* want to check out more than one branch at the same
>       time[*]). Nevertheless, I think we lose if we buck the tide.

+1, I was surprised to hear this called a dead chicken, It seems like
just an explicit request.

I suspect the majority of checkouts occur for branches anyhow.

-Casey