I've made all the changes that I want to make for now on serialization_next_release. Now I want to merge these changes into the trunk and close the branch. a) Is this a good/appropriate time to do this? If not, when would be a good time. b) I've assumed that the best way to do the merge is just to do it the way its described in the SVN documention. I have both the trunk on my branch on my local machine and all changes are checked it so I should be able to just move to the branch and do a merge of all the changes on the branch. I've noticed some posts which describe a different procedure but its not clear to me that I can or should use a different one. Robert Ramey