What is the reasoning behind the recommended layout for Subversion repositories?

Question

Version Control with Subversion recommends the following layout for (single-project) repositories (complemented by this question):

/trunk
/tags
  /rel.1 (app         


        

Answer 1

Whenever you deal with real live environments, you would want your developers to be able to understand your repository as easily as possible. A good way to do this is by adhering to the recommended Subversion standard layout.