[cvsnt] One Repository or Multiple Repositories

[David Williamson]

Ian,

Did not know about the limitation.  Just an FYI the newer versions of CVSNT are not limited to 64 according to other readings (default to 1024 and can be reghacked to higher ... not proven 1st hand though).

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   Name: David Williamson
Company: Integrated Visual Systems, Inc.
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Ian Epperson wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stasko, Roger [mailto:Roger.Stasko at LibertyMutual.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:38 PM
> > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> > Subject: RE: [cvsnt] One Repository or Multiple Repositories
> >
> >
> > I recommend using multiple, customer-based repositories if your chosen
> > development tool supports them.
> > For example, Eclipse/WebSphere Studio Application Developer
> > allows each
> > project to have a different repository, so there's no penalty
> > for having
> > multiple repositories.
> 
> Ah, but there is.  Last time I checked, CVSNT was limited to 64
> repositories.  As our current active client list is at 104, keeping a
> repository for each one would simply not work.
> 
> I highly recommend making a "Clients" repository and individual modules
> beneath that.  As I understand it, the only limit on modules is the one
> imposed by the file system for folders.
> 
> Likewise, as it takes an administrator to create a repository - do you
> really want a network admin in the chain of establishing a new client?
> 
> This also allows you to maintain a single set of scripts for all the clients
> (for good or ill).
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Williamson [mailto:dwilliamson at ivsi.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 2:18 PM
> > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> > Subject: [cvsnt] One Repository or Multiple Repositories
> >
> >
> > To anyone who has an opinion,
> >
> > Our custom software shop is new to CVSNT and CVS in general.  We are
> > debating the best approach to setting up our repository.  Should we
> > setup a repository for each customer that we have and put
> > each of their
> > projects in a separate module or should we have one large software
> > repository that has a module for each customer?
> >
> > The administrators thought was to create a repository for
> > each customer
> > and place their projects within it.  Reason:  If something
> > happened to a
> > repository then our down time would be limited to one customer and
> > backup recovery would be easier by replacing the entire
> > repository from
> > last night's backup.
> >
> > The users thought was to create a single "Software" repository and
> > create a module for each customer and place their projects within it.
> > Reason:  It would be easier to just go to the same repository and list
> > the modules.
> >
> > --
> >
> > ****************************************
> >    Name: David Williamson
> > Company: Integrated Visual Systems, Inc.
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