title: Best practice question on merging bug fixes w/ the release branching pattern on SVN 1.6
body: <p>I am switching to using the release branching pattern. I know the <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.branchmerge.commonpatterns.html#svn.branchmerge.commonpatterns.release" rel="nofollow">svn book</a> say that in the release branching pattern, you make your bug fixes in the trunk and the merge them into the release branch. The book was written for SVN 1.5 and there have been improvements to the information SVN stores when branching and merging in 1.6.  If I never plan on merging the release branch back to the trunk, is there any danger in making the changes in the release branch and merge the fixes into the trunk? </p>