Commits and merges on SVN subdirectories considered harmful?

Question

We have several large subprojects inside our main SVN project root.
I commit and merge only my subproject when working with our release branches, mainly because it\'s fa

Answer 1

Committing should not have a problem, but in merges SVN tracks what is and is not merged.

Therefore I assume you want to merge at the root to simplify future merges (in respect to the data set size being compared by SVN).