On Wednesday 16 November 2005 08:35, Osku Salerma wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "have the branches locally" (SVK?), but a > plain rename of a branch doesn't force new check-outs, people can use > svn switch to point their working copies at the new branch name.
Same thing. It forces people to "do something" they wouldn't otherwise need to do. Also, the names may already be established and written down inside shell scripts, etc.