Brought forward from Subversion feature branch requires changes from another feature branch
I have two feature branches: "FeatureA" and "FeatureB". FeatureA is complete, but not merged to trunk because it's not been confirmed whether it should go in the next release or not.
FeatureB is in progress, and it turns out requires some changes to dbml that have actually been applied to FeatureA.
I have a few options, one of which is to merge only the dbml and associated files. I am aware that it is best practice to merge/update/commit etc from the working copy root, but what problems could it cause if I was to go ahead?
In the end I solved this problem by agreeing with my managers that if I have this problem, that I'll simply build the two features into one branch and they'll have to come together and be tested together.