I agree generally with David, and have added some comments:

David Brewer wrote:
...
>   * We access subversion through an Apache server, primarily to provide
>  external HTTPS access to the repositories.  This was possibly more
>  complicated to set up then the alternatives but works very well for
>  us.  We're actually using Apache on a Windows server for this purpose.

We use Apache and DAV/SVN as well, both internally and externally with 
the Open Komodo repository. I also use it (a bit) on my own site. Setup 
can be a bit tricky but if you have any questions let me know. I think 
accessing SVN using https and a self-signed cert is realy handy. You can 
even do tricks like allow read-only access to the world and restrict 
write access to authenticated users.

>   * We're using FSFS rather than the Berkley DB backend.

@David: what is the advantage there?

>   * Even with version control, you will still have your backup
>  issues... we do nightly backups of all the repositories.
>   * We refrain from checking in large binary assets such as video or
>  photoshop files to the repository.  Subversion doesn't do a good job
>  of handling diffs to these files, which means that if you put these in
>  the repo it will swell in size dramatically.  There is no good way of
>  recovering this space if this happens, because deleting the file only
>  deletes it in the latest version of the repository.

+1, and this is where svn:ignore rules come in handy, without having to 
do a bunch of fiddling with file systems.

As well, there is a great script included with the subversion source 
package called 'svn-load-dirs.pl'. I use this tool to manage different 
versions of external source trees; I originally came across it here:

http://www.davidgrant.ca/maintaining_vendor_sources_with_subversion

JeffG




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