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I'll be honest, SVN branches scare me. The last project that I worked on which used them extensively, I seemed to spend half my time testing my branch worked, doing a dummy merge into trunk, doing a real merge - only to find someone else had just committed while I was doing this and I had to update and start over.
On that particular project, branching was done per-developer... there was a trunk and then you had your personal branch, worked on a task and merged the range of revisions back in. It seemed horrific as you had to check each time what the last revision in your branch was that you merged.
Is this paradigm actually good, and I just didn't get it since I'm not used to command-line SVN usage? Or was it a terrible system?