> > That's the whole point of the branch. Freezing the trunk would be > > pretty > > annoying, since everyone with an unsuitable change would have to > > create a > > branch. Or at least a common branch for all post-r1-alpha1 > > development, > > which is basically the same strategy as creating a release branch > > with the > > difference, that this way around the branch would have to be merged > > back > > into the trunk after the release. > > Or it would just mean that every one has their non-bugfix > improvements > stored in their local trees until after the freeze. I would imagine > it > being only a week or two (enough for everyone to perform a final test > of the codebase and the binary release). No branching necessary. Except they won't be able to build alpha unless they svn diff && svn revert everything or svn co again elsewhere... But then with a branch one has to svn co elsewhere anyway... François.