Merges into sparse working copies and tree conflicts

Hello,
I am having some problems with merges and am not sure if this is a bug or not. Server is 1.6.1, client is 1.6.1:

Repository looks like this:
trunk
  - project1
  - project2
  ... etc ...
branches
  ... etc ...

Now, let's say I only care about projects 3 and 5. So I:

svn co svn+ssh://server/repo/trunk --depth empty
svn up trunk/project3
svn up trunk/project5

Now, I want to create a private branch. So I:
cd trunk
svn cp -m "Create branch" ^/trunk ^/branches/myBranch
svn switch ^/branches/myBranch

Now, after some time, I want to merge from trunk, so I:
svn merge --depth=infinity ^/trunk

However, now I see a bunch of tree conflicts on some of the other projects that were not part of my checkout - and the merge takes _forever_.

Is this normal? I would expect the merge to ignore the folders I have not checked out. And why is this taking so long (taking 100% CPU on the server)? The repository I am using is quite large - but the sections I actually checked out are not.

Note that I actually DO want a sparse checkout of trunk, as I want to be able to create a branch and commit to my projects atomically.

Thanks!
SVN Merger.

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Received on 2009-04-23 23:27:31 CEST