Depends on the system. When I used to manage SVN we would branch independent projects and then releases would be a snapshot of each into the server section of t

Depends on the system. When I used to manage SVN we would branch independent projects and then releases would be a snapshot of each into the server section of the repo. Those were then pulled down to their respective machines. In SVN a branch is simply a convention. You copy (almost zero cost) things around into your branches directory