[I am only sort-of back -- will catch up properly in a day or so, but
this came in while I was staring balefully at the inbox]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Heikki Johannes Junes<[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems like our svn tree does not fully obey the trunk-branches-tags pattern

Right, this is because initially (going back to the CVS days) we had
the rosegarden directory containing more things than just source code
-- it also held (possibly still holds, I can't quite remember the
current details) the website, some documentation and so on.

That was never terribly satisfactory, as it meant people tended to
check out everything there instead of just the code tree.  When making
branches, we generally reckoned not to preserve all this stuff but
branch only the vital (code) part, probably implicitly recognising
that the original structure wasn't actually very good.  Hence this
discrepancy.  (There may be some branches in there that do actually
duplicate the whole of trunk/, but most just copy trunk/rosegarden.)

I had a short discussion with Michael a while back about whether to
fix the structure of trunk (i.e. your proposal no. 1) and we decided
at the time not to press on with it because (1) it would force
everyone with a working copy to "svn switch" if they want it to
continue working and (2) it would take some thought about where to
move the non-code bits (i.e. everything other than trunk/rosegarden
that is beneath trunk/) to.

Neither reason is very strong, but since we saw no very immediate
reason other than tidiness to make the change either, we let it drop.
If the current situation does actually break things for you, though,
then perhaps we should fix it.


Chris

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