title: Working with multiple maven projects and multiple branches
body: <p>All,</p>
  
  <p>currently I have following maven projects all stored in svn:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Common-Test v1.0 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-> svn:repo/Common-Test/trunk</li>
  <li>Common-Core v3.1 (depends on 1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -> svn:repo/Common-Core/trunk</li>
  <li>PM-Web v3.1 (depends on 2) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-> svn:repo/PM-Web/trunk</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Now, I need to create a branch since v3.1 is installed in production and we want to start development for v4.0. I am not sure about he best way to handle this:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>should I simply create a branch of every project and increase the version? I don't think so since for instance Common-Test will probably not change so why increase the version? <br/>However, if for some reason a change in Common-Test is required then the danger is there that we accidentaly make the change in v1.0 instead of creating a new version and a new branch.</li>
  <li>In svn: should I group the 3 projects into 1 remote folder and create a branch of that folder?</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>This is probably is common situation so I was wondering which procedures are out there...</p>
  
  <p>thanks,<br>
  Stijn</p>