svn merge creates symbolic links as text files

Hi,

I added a symbolic link to trunk and wanted to merge it to a branch.

Here is what I'we done in the branch:

# First i looked for the changes since the branch was created.
$ svn diff -r 3154:HEAD REPOS/trunk
Index: vote
===================================================================
--- vote (revision 0)
+++ vote (revision 3156)
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+link lib/vote
\ No newline at end of file

Property changes on: vote
___________________________________________________________________
Name: svn:special
   + *

# Ok there vas a symbolic link added.
# Lets merge it to the branch.
$ svn merge -r 3154:HEAD REPOS/trunk
A vote

# Seem ok, but!
$ svn st vote
~ + vote

# Something is strange. vote should be a symbolic link
# but it's actually a text file.
$ ls -l
-rw-rw-r-- 1 calle frantic 13 Feb 11 09:40 vote
$ more vote
link lib/vote
$ svn proplist vote
Properties on 'vote':
  svn:special

# It's a file containing the text "link lib/vote".
# It should link to lib/vote so thats correct but it should be a
# link and not a file.

The bug is that svn merge doesn't create symbolic links, it creates
textfiles instead.

I'm using svn, version 1.1.3 (r12730) compiled Feb 9 2005, 15:07:30 on
a Redhat Linux with kernel 2.4.21-27.EL.

Best Regards,
        Carl Räihä

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