[svn] Why am I getting tree conflicts in Subversion?

I had this same problem, and resolved it by re-doing the merge using these instructions. Basically, it uses SVN's "2-URL merge" to update trunk to the current state of your branch, without bothering so much about history and tree conflicts. Saved me from manually fixing 114 tree conflicts.

I'm not sure if it preserves history as well as one would like, but it was worth it in my case.