diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml
index 0814ee5aaf..d253ea8d39 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/article.sgml
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@
 	  preferable.</para>
       </sect3>
 
-      <sect3>
+      <sect3 id="subversion-primer-base-layout">
 	<title><literal>RELENG_*</literal> Branches and General
 	  Layout</title>
 
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@
 &prompt.user; <userinput>svn commit stable/8</userinput></screen>
       </sect3>
 
-      <sect3>
+      <sect3 id="subversion-primer-merge">
 	<title>Merging with <acronym>SVN</acronym></title>
 
 	<para>This section deals with merging code from one branch to
@@ -1441,6 +1441,38 @@ $target - head/$source:$P,$Q,$R</screen>
 	      Subversion.</para>
 	  </sect5>
 
+	  <sect5>
+	    <title>Practical Example</title>
+	    <para>As an practical example, consider the following scenario:
+	      The changes to <filename>netmap.4</filename> in r238987 is
+	      to be merged from CURRENT to 9-STABLE.  The file resides in
+	      <filename class="directory">head/share/man/man4</filename> and
+	      according to <xref linkend="subversion-primer-merge"> this
+	      is also where to do the merge.  Note that in this example
+	      all paths are relative to the top of the svn repository.
+	      for more information on the directory layout, see
+	      <xref linkend="subversion-primer-base-layout">.</para>
+            <para>The first step is to check the existing mergeinfo.</para>
+
+	    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn propget svn:mergeinfo -R stable/9/share/man/man4</userinput></screen>
+
+	    <para>Take a quick note of how it looks before moving on to the next
+	      step; doing the actual merge:</para>
+
+	    <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn merge -c r238987 svn+ssh://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/share/man/man4 stable/9/share/man/man4</userinput>
+--- Merging r238987 into 'stable/9/share/man/man4':
+U    stable/9/share/man/man4/netmap.4
+--- Recording mergeinfo for merge of r238987 into
+'stable/9/share/man/man4':
+ U   stable/9/share/man/man4</screen>
+
+	    <para>Check that the merge info is still ok; the revision
+	      number of the merged revision should be added.  Once this
+	      is checked, the only thing left is the actual commit.</para>
+            
+            <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn commit stable/9/share/man/man4</userinput></screen>
+	  </sect5>
+
 	  <sect5>
 	    <title>Merging into the Kernel
 	      (<filename class="directory">sys/</filename>)</title>