title: Can I update a branch from the trunk without performing a merge?
body: <p>I probably just haven't thought this through, or perhaps I'm simply unaware of an already existing option in Subversion (I'm certainly no expert).</p>
  
  <p>I'm just wondering, if I've created a branch to start working on some new feature, if there's an easier way to keep the branch up to date with the <em>trunk</em>'s most recent revisions without having to go through all the trouble of merging a range of revisions. I would like to be able to simply update and get all revisions from the trunk (<em>and</em> the branch, of course), while my committed changes only affect the branch. Is this possible? Does what I'm asking make sense?</p>
  
  <p>I suppose this isn't really necessarily different from merging a range of revisions; it's just that I use AnkhSVN, which performs all these best-practice checks before allowing a merge, and sometimes it feels like it's a lot more complicated than it needs to be. The idea is that I want to keep my branch up-to-date with any commits other developers may be making to the trunk so that when I eventually <em>do</em> merge my branch into the trunk, everything goes (as) smoothly (as possible).</p>