We don't often use branching and/or merging based on the simple nature of our version releases with very little overlap. We have a longer ranging version - the next 7 months or so in progress. Since we are getting ready to deliver some file changes I'd like to use the trunk instead of a branch just because it's easier. There is a very little chance we would really need to release anything to the previous production level during these 7 months. If it came up I was going to just copy the tag to a branch and use that for development - and basically tagging it (or maybe even merging into the tag). Any reason that creating a permanent branch on the tree would matter -- i mean never merging it anywhere? I don't see what harm it would have really - but I just wanted to be sure in case I decide to branch from the production version of the trunk instead. Probably a silly question - but it's good to have input from others who branch and merge regularly. Thx for any help. If it matters - we are still on svn 1.4.3. KM
