Old versions of Subversion required you to remember the revision, but since 2009 and version 1.6, that is no longer the case. A modern SVN workflow can easily

Old versions of Subversion required you to remember the revision, but since 2009 and version 1.6, that is no longer the case. A modern SVN workflow can easily look like this: svn co https://svn.example.com/myproject/trunk . svn copy . ^/branches/feature_branch -m 'Created feature branch' svn switch ^/branches/feature_branch svn ci -m 'Added foo baz' svn switch ^/trunk svn merge ^/branches/feature_branch . svn rm ^/branches/feature_branch -m 'Closed feature branch'