I have seen a crash (null pointer access) during svn merge using serf. The same command using neon was successful.
I am using a trunk compiled version of svn (revision 1061787) on windows together with a trunk version of serf (revision 1421) compiled with visual studio 2010 The reason is that the serf_httpconn_socket received a null pointer as bucket. Attached are the 2 crash report files and a screen dump of the .dmp file loaded in the debugger. Marc