SVN/CVS and Branching

[Jeff Dyke]

Hello.  I am curious about different ideas on how you handle branching
your python projects.  With some other languages this is trivial, but
since python uses these directories as modules and i have the top
level module starting imports all over the place, i am wondering what
others do.  In the past we had retired the first branch and just moved
towards the new, but that is not possible now.

Thanks,
jd