Given the known bugs [1] that reflect your svn merging experience, it seems the majority of svn users, myself admittedly included, just never do reflective merging in svn or else there would be more of a fuss over it.
As a good illustration for others of what you're talking about, the bug report points to this picture [2] in which commit 17 to trunk is what causes svn problems.
As a good illustration for others of what you're talking about, the bug report points to this picture [2] in which commit 17 to trunk is what causes svn problems.
[1]: http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2897
[2]: http://www.open.collab.net/branding/images/projects/merge/re...