why is svn so useless at merge.

Client win32 1.1.2, server freeBSD 1.1.1.

I have a set of trunk changes which I wish to apply to a branch.

In the freshly checked out branch I do

svn merge -r15822:HEAD https://192.168.0.6/svn/private/trunk

The merge keeps failing with a Working copy users/xxx not locked.

I tried removing users from the branch and that fails dismally. It seems as
though the merge is faili to create folders which it needs to inspect/change.

I also tried --ignore-ancestry, but still get the same error.

What can I do to get this simple merge to work?

Can the merge operation be decomposed in some way? Can I get merge to avoid this
locking issue (which shouldn't arise) or avoid the changes which relevant to the
branch?

SVN is really failing me here for the first time.

-- 
Robin Becker
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