FW: Merging two unrelated branches deletes files, then recreates them, rather than merging the contents

Greetings,

I have attached a zip of my experiment to this e-mail.

I am sure that I am missing some major concept when it comes to
subversion.

I have also included a set of commands that I followed to get to the
point where my process broke.

The question is , how do I take two unrelated directories and merge
their contents, including file level changes?

-bash-3.00$ mkdir experiment

-bash-3.00$ cd experiment

-bash-3.00$ mkdir mycode

-bash-3.00$ mkdir vendorcode

-bash-3.00$ cd mycode/

-bash-3.00$ vi words1

-bash-3.00$ vi numbers1

-bash-3.00$ cp numbers1 ../vendorcode/

-bash-3.00$ cp words1 ../vendorcode/

-bash-3.00$ cd ..

-bash-3.00$ cd vendorcode/

-bash-3.00$ ls

numbers1 words1

-bash-3.00$ vi words1

-bash-3.00$ vi numbers1

-bash-3.00$ mkdir includes

-bash-3.00$ cd includes/

-bash-3.00$ vi includes

-bash-3.00$ cd ..

-bash-3.00$ ls

includes numbers1 words1

-bash-3.00$ cd ..

-bash-3.00$ cd ..

-bash-3.00$ svnadmin create my_repos

-bash-3.00$ svn import -m "Importing mycode" ./experiment/mycode/
file:///home/thomas.sturgeon/my_repos/

Adding experiment/mycode/words1

Adding experiment/mycode/numbers1

Committed revision 1.

-bash-3.00$ svn import -m "Importing vendorcode"
./experiment/vendorcode/
file:///home/thomas.sturgeon/my_repos/vendorcode

Adding experiment/vendorcode/words1

Adding experiment/vendorcode/includes

Adding experiment/vendorcode/includes/includes

Adding experiment/vendorcode/numbers1

Committed revision 2.

-bash-3.00$ pwd

/home/thomas.sturgeon

-bash-3.00$ svn co file:///home/thomas.sturgeon/my_repos/mycode ./wc

A wc/words1

A wc/numbers1

Checked out revision 2.

-bash-3.00$ svn merge file:///home/thomas.sturgeon/my_repos/vendorcode
file:///home/thomas.sturgeon/my_repos/mycode ./wc

D wc/words1

A wc/words1

D wc/numbers1

A wc/numbers1

Skipped missing target: 'wc/includes'

-bash-3.00$

Thanks,

Thomas Sturgeon

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