Index: tools/dev/unix-build/Makefile.svn
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--- tools/dev/unix-build/Makefile.svn	(revision 1872002)
+++ tools/dev/unix-build/Makefile.svn	(working copy)
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 PCRE_VER	= 8.41
 HTTPD_VER	= 2.4.37
 NEON_VER	= 0.30.2
-SERF_VER	= 1.3.9
+SERF_VER	= 1.4.x
 SERF_OLD_VER	= 0.3.1
 CYRUS_SASL_VER	= 2.1.25
 SQLITE_VER	= 3160200
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
 HTTPD_URL	= https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/$(HTTPD_DIST)
 #NEON_URL	= http://webdav.org/neon/$(NEON_DIST)
 NEON_URL	= http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/distfiles/$(NEON_DIST)
-SERF_URL	= https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/serf/tags/$(SERF_VER)
+SERF_URL	= https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/serf/branches/$(SERF_VER)
 SERF_OLD_URL	= https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/serf/tags/$(SERF_OLD_VER)
 SQLITE_URL	= https://www.sqlite.org/2017/$(SQLITE_DIST)
 CYRUS_SASL_URL	= https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-sasl/releases/download/cyrus-sasl-${CYRUS_SASL_VER}/$(CYRUS_SASL_DIST)
@@ -905,7 +905,6 @@
 	[ -d $(SERF_OBJDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(SERF_OBJDIR)
 	if [ ! -d $(SERF_SRCDIR) ]; then \
 		svn co $(SERF_URL) $(SERF_SRCDIR); \
-		svn merge ^/serf/branches/1.3.x-sslbuild@1781542 $(SERF_SRCDIR); \
 	fi
 	touch $@