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This chapter goes into greater depth about the depot. It explains what depots are, and how you manage them and how you can best make use of them.
The primary focus of this chapter is the depotmap command, and is best read with reference to svk depotmap.
As you will already know, a depot is SVK's primary storage area. It is the place from which all of your code is checked out, and to where you commit your changes and mirror other repositories. Up to this point this book has intentionally kept the inner workings of the depot away from the reader, as they are not essential to using SVK for most tasks, and would undoubtedly confuse the new user unnecessarily.
However, knowing more about how depots work and how to manage them can be of use to all users of SVK in terms of flexibility, and can help the reader gain a deeper understanding of SVK; beyond the basics.
As was explained in the section called “The Depot”
depot is simply a Subversion repository, which can be located
anywhere in the filesystem. The Subversion file system used for
this repository is defined by the $SVNFSTYPE
environment variable. If $SVNFSTYPE is not
set, the file system is determined by the version of the
Subversion client installed (fsfs for version 1.1 and newer, bdb
for older versions of Subversion).
Outside of this Subversion repository, SVK also keeps
higher-level information about the depot in the
$SVKROOT/config file. The two key pieces of
information stored about a depot are:
DEPOTNAMEThe DEPOTNAME is a symbolic
name give to the depot which makes up a part of the
DEPOTPATHs that you pass to SVK commands.
REPOPATHThe REPOPATH is the full
absolute path to the Subversion repository itself.