Branches and Tags

Subversion doesn't distinguish between filesystem space and “branch” space; branches and tags are ordinary directories within the filesystem. This is probably the single biggest mental hurdle a CVS user will need to climb. Read all about it in Chapter 4, Branching and Merging.

Warning

Since Subversion treats branches and tags as ordinary directories, always remember to check out the trunk (http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/trunk/) of your project, and not the project itself (http://svn.example.com/repos/calc/). If you make the mistake of checking out the project itself, you'll wind up with a working copy that contains a copy of your project for every branch and tag you have.[60]


[60] That is, providing you don't run out of disk space before your checkout finishes.

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