Should I store all projects in one repository or multiple?

Question

I am currently using TortoiseSVN to manage a couple of the projects that I have on the go at the moment. When I first moved everything into source control I wasn\'t really

Answer 1

For Subversion, I'd suggest putting everything in the same repository; the administrative overhead of setting up a new repository is too high to make it a no-brainer, so you're more likely not to version something and regret it later. Subversion provides plenty of fine-grained access controls if you need to restrict access to a portion of your repository.

As I begin to migrate my projects to Mercurial, however, I've switched to creating a repository per project, because it just takes a "hg init" to create a new one in place, and I can use the hg forest extension to easily perform operations on nested repositories. Subversion has svn:externals, which are somewhat similar, but require more administrative overhead.