I can't be sure that this is the cause but please try running merge without --force.
There is a fix for incoming directory deletions during merge scheduled for the next 1.8 release. With 1.8 using --force shouldn't be necessary anyway as the old tree conflict detection problems were resolved by 1.8.0. (--force made older versions strict ignore what was deleted when applying deletes) Bert From: scott.stei...@tdameritrade.com [mailto:scott.stei...@tdameritrade.com] Sent: woensdag 16 april 2014 23:16 To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Access violation Trying to dry-run test merging a branch URL to a working copy of another branch. Scott Steimle Senior Consultant The HLS Group, LLC (via Aureus Group)