I've personally always kept my trunk as the stable, and merged changes into it from other places with little ill-effect. The only problem is if you get a bad commit (it happens, sometimes the software screws up and issues a commit number to the svn client but doesn't save the changes), then everything goes haywire.
-Nick On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Justin Mclean <jus...@classsoftware.com>wrote: > Hi, > > JFYI there may be less issue with more recent versions of SVN and > branching. > > In that you can keep branches up to date like so: > svn merge pathtotrunk > > And then merging via: > svn merge --reintegrate pathtobranch > > Any tired this? How does it work in practise? > > Thanks, > Justin >