Drupal: setting up a svn

Question

I'm setting up for the first time SVN for my Drupal website. (It is not connected to the Drupal repository but to synch the remote and local versions of my websites with a 3rd party SVN hosting service)

The question is simple: I would prefer to not complicate too much the server path to my website..

i.e. /var/www/repository_name/trunk/mywebsite/

is a bit too long.. I would prefer to keep it simple as it is now:

/var/www/mywebsite

Should I maybe use symbolic links ? What's the professional way to setup SVN ?

thanks

Answer 1

cd /var/www
svn co http://server/repository_name/trunk/mywebsite

or

cd /var/www
svn co http://server/repository_name/trunk/mywebsites_name_in_repo mywebsite

Answer 2

The website is not served directly from the repository. The website is served from either a working copy or an exported copy of the repository. Furthermore, the repository is not accessed directly, but only by means of an SVN client. A wokring copy always knows from which repository it as taken. In light of that, there is no need to keep the path to the repository short.