title: How to SVN Merge
body: <p>I am having trouble with a subversion merge I've done before, and my local help is not around...so I was hoping someone here might be able to help.  Yes I've read the docs, I want a human response because this merge is very important.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to merge from branch123 to branch124, which was branched directly off branch 123.  my merge command is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>svn merge -r 18089:HEAD  svn+ssh://my.private.url/usr/local/svn/myappname/branches/123/ .
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>here the current directory is a freshly checked out copy of branch124.  revision 18088 was the previous revision which brought branch124 up to date.</p>
  
  <p>The results of the merge seem to be clearing out changes that have been made in branch124 since the previous refresh.  Is the syntax wrong?  Is there something else wrong? </p>