Acquia Cloud - SVN Repository Layout (Text Expander Snippet)

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Overall Repository Organization 
 
This is your base repository URL:
%fill:repo_url% 

Under this path you have three folders to organize your repository: 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk 
%fill:repo_url%/tags 
%fill:repo_url%/branches 
 
We recommend that active website development occur within "trunk". We recommend that stable versions of "trunk" are periodically copied to paths under "tags" (called a snapshot, or tag). We recommend that advanced SVN repository workflows utilize paths under "branches" as needed. 
 
 
Repository Trunk 

Under "trunk" there should be a path "docroot". This "docroot" path is where the Apache "DocumentRoot" will point, if your website is configured to look at "trunk". 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot 
 
"docroot" should contain your Drupal installation: 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/index.php 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/install.php 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/cron.php 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/robots.txt 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/.htaccess 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/sites 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/includes 
%fill:repo_url%/trunk/docroot/ [et cetera] 
 
 
Repository Tags 
 
When you're ready to publish your development code to your production environment, we recommend you do this by making a tag of your "trunk". This means that you are effectively copying the folder "trunk" to a sub-folder within "tags". We recommend naming the tag based on the date. For example if we did this today (%B %e, %Y), we would copy "trunk" to: 
%fill:repo_url%/tags/%Y-%m-%d 
 
This means that your DocumentRoot for this tag is: 
%fill:repo_url%/tags/%Y-%m-%d/docroot 
 
And your Drupal installation will be below that: 
%fill:repo_url%/tags/%Y-%m-%d/docroot/index.php 
%fill:repo_url%/tags/%Y-%m-%d/docroot/install.php 
%fill:repo_url%/tags/%Y-%m-%d/docroot/ [et cetera]  
 
The Workflow page for your Acquia Cloud site provides a GUI to copy "trunk" to a new path under "tags", and automatically point your production environment the docroot path within that tag.