svn merge not showing conflict

Hi All,

I am using svn merge to merge files across branches and I observed a strange behavior. I would like to know, if this is expected (That's why I am sending it to dev).

Explaining the scenario first.
1. I have two branches (b1 & b2) and current HEAD is 1724
2. I created a text file with some content
3. Added and committed text file to b1 (revision - 1725)
4. Added and committed text file to b2 (revision - 1726)
5. Checked out b2
6. Modified text file (edited an already existing line) in b2 and committed (1727)
7. Try to do an svn merge
svn merge -r 1724:HEAD URL_of_b1 LWC_of_b2

On this merge "text file" is shown to be added. When I run svn status, it shows conflicted. If it is conflicted, then I expect "svn merge" to show me a conflict rather than addition (Otherwise --dry-run option is misleading. To know the actual results it will force me to run svn merge and then a status on working copy).

Is my expectation correct (in that case there is some problem with svn merge) I am using 1.2.0 client for doing these operations.

--------------------------------------------------- Log of what I did -----------------
D:\temp>svn commit unicode -m "Test merge"
Adding unicode\36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1725.

D:\temp>svn commit unicode_AC -m "Test merge"
Adding unicode_AC\36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1726.

D:\temp>svn commit unicode_AC -m "Test merge"
Sending unicode_AC\36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1727.

D:\temp>cd unicode_AC

D:\temp\unicode_AC>svn merge -r 1724:HEAD http://srv-ind-conf1/repos/mergeplay/unicode/ .
A 36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt

D:\temp\unicode_AC>svn st
? 36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt.merge-left.r0
? 36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt.merge-right.r1727
? 36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt.working
C 36.3_TO_36.5_csv.txt

D:\temp\unicode_AC>

Regards,
Manesh

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Received on Wed Jul 13 09:57:33 2005