/li>

        <li>This may be a problem if preparing the release takes too long.</li>
      </ul>
    </dd>

    <dt>Create a release branch where the release is finalised</dt>

    <dd>
      <p>You then lose the ability to be able to branch from the release.</p>

      <p>It may be harder to identify what changes have been made between
      releases (since you can't simply look at all the changesets made between
      two revisions of the trunk).</p>
    </dd>
  </dl>

  <h2 id="rapid">Rapid vs Staged De