On Mar 12, 2010, at 14:43, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/12/2010 2:12 PM, Johan Corveleyn wrote: >> > >> Is there an entry in the issue tracker for this, if this is indeed >> considered a bug (I know there is one for the inability to remove file >> externals, but for this behavior of dir externals...)? Or is there no >> consensus that this is indeed a bug? > > What should happen to things that are added to a working copy some other way > but aren't managed by subversion? I don't think you want them deleted on an > update. After you've removed an external, how is subversion supposed to tell > the difference between something it put there from the earlier external > reference and something you copied in yourself?
"By keeping track of it," of course. It seems the fact that Subversion doesn't keep track of it is the bug.
