Using SVN for multiple stages of development.

We are looking for a certain setup within SVN to meet certain standards within our company. Our code progresses thru several stages of development before it finally reaches a production level (dev, ut (aka user-testing), prod).    I've setup SVN in the method demostrated below.    + Repositroy Root  |---+ Dev  | |----+ Project Id/Name #1  | | |----+ Project Files & folders  | |  | |----+ Project Id/Name #2  | |----+ Project Files & folders  |  |---+ UT  | |----+ Project Id/Name #1  | | |----+ Project Files & folders  | |  | |----+ Project Id/Name #2  | |----+ Project Files & folders  |  |---+ Prod   |----+ Project Id/Name #1   | |----+ Project Files & folders   |   |----+ Project Id/Name #2   |----+ Project Files & folders  The problem we've run into is that we were moving our files using the "copy to" function in TortoiseSVN but it fails after the initial copy as we get a "directory already exists" error. Example. Developer will promote his code from 'dev' to 'UT' using the copy to function.    Is there any way of getting around this error, or any other recommendations as to another possible setup that will meet our setup requirements (thx to SOX).

Last updated 17 years ago

"Copy To" ???    I don't know the "Copy To" function in TortoiseSVN but I think Branch/Tag approch should work for you. Just use UT instead of Branch & Prod instead of Tag in TSVN docs and you can figure out the rest.