Problems with svn merge on merging a whole branch to another

I try exactly to do what is described as common-use for merging in the
Subversion book in the section "Merging a Whole Branch to Another", but I'm
encountering a lot of conflicts where I think the merge should be able to
process the files silently and correctly without user intervention.

Here's what I'm doing:

- I have a freshly updated version of the trunk in a directory named 'dvl'

> cd dvl
> svn update
At revision 542.

- I create the branch in revision 503, so now for mergin I do

> svn merge -r 503:HEAD svn://myserver/myrepos/mybranch

As the branch has not been existing very long and few development was done
on the same file in the trunk and the branch, I expected to get only status
'Updated' during the merge, but I get more 'Conflicts' than 'Updates' - even
on files which have not been modified in the trunk in the mean time!
If I look in such a file, I see only conflicts like the one below where
there is really nothing conflicting:

<<<<<<< .working
        // some lines
        // of code
        // are her
=======
>>>>>>> .merge-right.r542

Some files which have about the same changes applied, are ok.

What do you think can cause such a problem (I'm using Subversion 1.2)?
Any help appreciated

Thomas

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Received on Sat Jun 11 15:02:49 2005