Making your branches smaller for easier merges

[Paul Brook]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 21:37, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> I see occasional complaints about the size of mainline merges to
> branches  Most people working on branches are only modifying a very
> small subset of the files that are in mainline, and certainly not the
> entire trunk tree.

I'm kinda surprised this is still a problem.
With svn even big merges should be fairly quick, and if you're only modifying 
a small part of the tree then everything else should merge without conflicts.

Am I missing something?

Paul