Is there a way when creating new SVN repositories for the client (tortoisesvn) to create the branches, tags and trunk folders automaticlly?

Question

I'm using tortoisesvn to create the repositories and wondered if there was a way it could automatically create a skeleton directory structure within the repository?

I need this as I'm going to allow other people in the team to set-up new repositories and I need to make it as simple as possible and minimise mistakes. I would like the tags, branches and trunk directories to be created automatically.

Answer 1

As this is just a convention for organizing a Subversion repository and you don't actually want them at the top level all the time I doubt there is a way to do that automatically on repository creation. Usually you don't create multiple repositories per hour or so anyway.

Answer 2

You can write a script (in the language of your choice) that creates the repository and commits the predefined directory structure, using the svn command line client.

Answer 3

Make a script. If you are on Windows, a bat. On Linux etc, an bash.

Answer 4

I would suggest the following approach:

1. create an empty repository
2. check out a working copy of that empty repository
3. add trunk/branches/tags folders
4. set properties on those folders (e.g., if you're using TSVN you might want to set the tsvn:minlogsize and/or the tsvn:autoprops properties)
5. commit those folders
6. run svnadmin dump path/to/Repo > templaterepo.dmp

Now you have a template repository with some settings and folders pre-set.

All you need now is a script which does:

1. svnadmin create path/to/new/Repo
2. svnadmin load --ignore-uuid path/to/new/repo < templaterepo.dmp

and you're done. But don't forget to pass the --ignore-uuid param to svnadmin load! Otherwise you'll end up with all your repositories having the same uuid - and that will cause problems!