* Improve use of svn merge, by specifying the file to merge, rather than

  chdiring to the srcdir (which wasn't right when merging in a subdir).
  Thanks Ethan.

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-svn's merge command has three twisty little syntaxes, none 
-very DWIM-ish. For merging one file, apparently it is helpful
-to specify that file itself. [This patch][] does that.
-
-[This patch]: http://ikidev.betacantrips.com/patches/merge.patch
-
-The bug that this fixes is hard to demonstrate without 
-generating a lot of noise, but you can get the idea by 
-finding a file that was committed in a subdirectory and
-merging a change with it.
-
-    [apu]$ emacs one/test.mdwn
-    [apu]$ svn add one/test.mdwn
-    A         one/test.mdwn
-    [apu]$ svn commit -m "Another test case for merging."
-    Adding         one/test.mdwn
-    Transmitting file data .
-    Committed revision 42.
-    [apu]$ emacs one/test.mdwn
-    [apu]$ svn commit -m "Change."
-    Sending        one/test.mdwn
-    Transmitting file data .
-    Committed revision 43.
-    svn merge -r38:39 ~/ikidevwc/patches/merge.patch
-    [apu]$ svn merge -r42:43 one/test.mdwn
-    svn: Cannot replace a directory from within
-    [apu]$ svn merge -r42:43 ~/ikidevwc/one/test.mdwn
-    svn: Cannot replace a directory from within`
-
-CGI.pm does a command much like the last one. However:
-
-    [apu]$ svn merge -r43:42 ~/ikidevwc/one/test.mdwn
-    svn: Cannot replace a directory from within
-    [apu]$ svn merge -r43:42 ~/ikidevwc/one/test.mdwn ~/ikidevwc/one/test.mdwn
-    U    /home/glasserc/ikidevwc/one/test.mdwn
-
-In other words, merging works only when you specify 
-the file, or, alternately:
-
-    [apu]$ cd one
-    [apu]$ svn merge -r42:43 ~/ikidevwc/one/test.mdwn
-    G    test.mdwn
-
-... if you're in the same directory as the file. Note that if 
-a file called "test.mdwn" happens to be where you are, it'll get
-changed! I think this is what is meant in `svn help merge` when
-it says:
-
-    If WCPATH is omitted, a default value of '.' is assumed, unless
-    the sources have identical basenames that match a file within '.':
-    in which case, the differences will be applied to that file.
-
-So, to conclude: when merging two revisions of a file, either specify
-the file, or be in the same directory as a file with the same name.
-This patch makes the former always happen, whereas previously the 
-second would sometimes not happen. It also obviates the call to chdir.
-
-Source: [this message][] on the svn-user list.
-
-[this message]: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-03/0926.shtml
-
---Ethan
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