title: Is there a difference between an svn copy and an svn branch?
body: <p>I asked one of my developers to give each dev a different copy of the trunk to work on in /branches (under their own name).</p>
  
  <p>That developer is not experienced in subversion (and neither am I), so I'm trying to determine if he did the right thing by copying the trunk into each branch folder and committing it, or if he should have done something else.</p>