SVN — distribute code and example data set separately?

Question

If I have a program and a set of example data that I want to distribute on SVN (separately so people who are familiar with the code need not get the example data with it), what's the best way to do this? Can I put that in a "branch"? Or should I put the code + examples in the branch and somehow keep the trunk and branch code synchronized?

Thanks! SVN noob

Answer 1

You put the code and examples in two separate directories with a common parent. So your project might look like:

 .../myproject/
   myproject-code/
   myproject-examples/

Subversion lets one check out subdirectories of a repository. For example, someone who wanted just the code could do this:

$ svn co http://example.com/svn/myproject/myproject-code/

Someone who wanted both would check out the parent.