tortoisesvn - SVN merge not working -

following instructions on svnbook website, attempting trunk changes branch, using following command:

cd <working directory merge to> svn merge ^/<project-directory>/trunk 

and not seem work, many trunk changes not end in branch.

i've tried both command-line , tortoisesvn, no avail. doing wrong?

i'm little concerned have project-directory trunk's source in example.

it should svn merge svn+ssh://url/of/repository/trunk . if you're within working copy of branch you're merging. source cannot working copy, target should be.

if it's local repository use file:// instead of svn+ssh well, omitting domain name url.