Merge crashes in windows

I am trying to merge a branch back into my trunk on windows xp with a svn .23 (from linux repository version .23).

I tried to merge from the base of my working copy of the head:

svn merge -r81:head svn://.../../../branches/tag

I get:

svn: Network connection closed unexpectedly
svn: Connection closed unexpectedly

I tried to do this a month ago as well on version .22 and had the same problem.

Does merging work? How do I do it?

Any help is most appreciated

Dane Summers
Received on Thu Jun 19 16:27:30 2003