Is it safe to use a subversion feature branch after reintegrate-merged to trunk?
- by ripper234
Must a feature branch be deleted after it's merged (reintegrated) back to trunk?
I prefer to constantly merge changes back and forth from my feature branch - I believe this keeps the conflicts to a minimum. Yet I understand that once you use the reintegrate merge to trunk, a feature branch should be deleted.
Is it so? Why? What can I do to circumvent this?
Update
I'm asking about technical problems that come from the tool, not "methodology concerns". I intend to keep working on the feature branch after the merge.
Update the top answer indeed specifies a rather complex procedure (merge, delete & rebranch). Is there an easy way to accomplish this in TortoiseSVN? Shouldn't there be?