What is the look project?

The look project contains special files that can override your site's default appearance and content, so that you can design your own icons, fonts, colors, and the wording of the onscreen labels that appear throughout your site.

The look project is a private project. By default, it is only accessible to users with site administration permission. To delegate control over a site's look and feel, the site administrator can add other site members to the look project and give them project administration permissions.

The look project has just one Subversion repository. That repository is named branding.

When a user requests a page from your site, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.1 checks the branding repository to see if any files there specify custom fonts, colors or text strings. If such specifications are found, CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.1 displays the page according to those specifications. If not, the page displays according to the default design.

Having your custom look-and-feel specifications in a Subversion repository enables you to roll back changes, track contributions, and use all the other features of a source code versioning system.