i have a next repository

```
/
 /branches
 /tags
 /trunk - unfortunately all source code for one project goes here

```

now i need start a new project, but i don't want to create it in the trunk because it leads to mixing two projects.

i want to create a new folder in the root of the repository

```
/newp - for example

```

But i need one subproject from the old project that is here: /trunk/folder/folder1
folder1 contains a lot of files

i want to create a folder /newp/folder1 and merge /trunk/folder/folder1 to /newp/folder1, when i do it, only subfolders of /trunk/folder/folder1 are merged to /newp/folder1. files are ignored. Why? I need ability to merge data in both ways. What is the best way to accomplish it? 

Pls, tell me if the task is not intelligible