  bugs. Although any code on the trunk should have been tested and reviewed
    it is unlikely to be as well tested as code from a stable release.</li>

    <li>Unless you originally created your branch from the latest revision of
    the trunk it is unlikely that you are going to want to merge in changes
    from the trunk. The exception to this is once your change is complete when
    it may make sense to merge all the changes on the trunk into your branch as
    a final step. This is discussed in <a href