One SVN repository or many?

Question

If you have multiple, unrelated projects, is it a good idea to put them in the same repository?

myRepo/projectA/trunk
myRepo/projectA/tags
myRepo/projectA/br         


        

Answer 1

Similar to mlambie's of using a single repo, but went bit further with the folder structure to easily zoom to particular type of projects - web html based projects vs. cs (C#) vs. sql (SQL create/execute scripts) vs. xyz (Domain Specific Languages like afl (AmiBroker Formula Language) or ts (TradeStation)):

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Note, I have trunk live within branches as I treat it as the default branch. The only pain sometimes is when you want to quickly create another project you need to build out the ProjectName/branches|tags structure. I use app-settings simply as place to keep specific Apps settings files in repo so easily shareable to others (and substitute ClientName to VendorName and ProjectName to AppName in this folder structure; and the branches|tags can be useful to tag settings across different major versions of vendor products too).

Welcome to any comments on my structure - I recently changed it to this and so far pretty happy but sometimes find it burdensome to maintain branches|tags structures per project - particularly if the project is simply a project setup simply to Unit Test another project.