What's going on: svn hangs on merge postpone for win but not lin?

What can I do to find out why my merge hangs when I choose postpone during a
conflict using the command line tool? This only happens on windows and not
on linux.

I have a workaround (use linux), but I don't have a cause or an
understanding of the problem. That means my workaround could magically stop
working in future and I wouldn't know what to do. I'm looking for clues as
to what's the underlying problem.

*What I'm attempting:*
Trying a reintegration merge like this (r101 is the revision from trunk used
to make the branch)

svn merge trunkURL101 branch1URL trunkWorkspace

*What Happens:
**Windows:*
prompted for conflict on foo.java, when I select *p*ostpone the command
hangs until I kill it
if I choose *tc* the merge continues properly

*Linux:*
no conflicts happen. Merge completes successfully.

*Nature of the Change to the file:*
file foo.java was modified by a merge from branch2 to branch1 not involving
trunk. Both branch and trunk versions have native eol-style and this
appears to be honored on both win and lin.

The merge is the first introduction of the change to trunk. The change adds
of a few methods to the class.

I'd expect windows to be confused by newlines and by rename where the only
difference is case, but neither happened here.

*Environment:*
  svn 1.5.4 linux httpd using FSFS
  svn 1.5.4 linux client
  svn 1.6.2 win client

*History:
*r102 create branch1 from trunk_at_r101
r103 create branch2 from trunk_at_r102
r104 modify foo.java on branch2
r105 modify foo.java on branch1 after merging from branch2

*Questions:
*Why am I seeing a conflict on win, but not linux?
     I'm guessing this must be a newline situation. Native eol-style on
branch and trunk version of file prior to merge

Why does postpone hang and what I do to find out what is going on?

thanks for any suggestions you can offer.

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