Strange merge behaviour

Hi,

I'm facing a problem where I get items modified by a merge although
there should be nothing to merge at all.

I create a new branch from trunk.
I checkout from that new branch.
I merge from trunk into the new branch.

[ No intermediate commit did happen as I'm doing this on a personal
backup copy of the repository. ]

svn status now shows some modified elements, and if I look at them with
svn diff, I get something like

Property changes on: path/to/file
___________________________________________________________________
Modified: svn:mergeinfo
   Merged /project/trunk/path/to/file:r1234

Why is this and how can I get rid of this strange behaviour?

Thanks...

        Dirk
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