more on svn:external: tags and branches.

This got me stoned for a while...

here are the facts.

my repo layout
Project/trunk/
      .../branches (big ugly branches)
      .../branches/test (private development branches)
      .../tags

Into P1/branches/test/ branches come and go fast.(with a very short
live: lets say one or two days live)
and then are svn deleted!

And there is this guy (project manager) that did a
svn co svn:Project (he needs all the project on his laptop when
traveling traveling)

so he got:
WC/trunk
WC/branches
WC/branches/test
WC/branches/test/my-dev-task
WC/branches/test/his-dev-task
WC/branches/test/other-dev-task

A couple of days later my-dev-task, his-dev-task, and other-dev-task are
forever gone (after merging :-)).
when he does a svn update on WC he gets lots of stuff printed on screen
(as expected),
and i mean looots of it. These are regular svn output, the regular thing.

WC/trunk
WC/branches
WC/branches/test
WC/branches/test/my-dev-task
WC/branches/test/his-dev-task
WC/branches/test/other-dev-task
WC/branches/test/my-new-dev-task
WC/branches/test/one-more-dev-task
WC/branches/test/and-even-another-dev-task

but please, notice there still

WC/branches/test/my-dev-task
WC/branches/test/his-dev-task
WC/branches/test/other-dev-task

Which i did svn delete myself, and that do not show on
svn:list svn://server/Project1/branches/test/

so his WC layout keeps getting larger.

OK. I did find the (problem?)

Deep into trunk there is one svn:external pointing to another repo.
Project2/trunk
         .../branches
         .../tags

son into the WC he got
WC/branches/test/my-dev-task/[...]/Project2
WC/branches/test/his-dev-task/[...]/Project2
WC/branches/test/other-dev-task/[...]/Project2

which does still exists.

And svn update deletes everything else in the WC,
but no the deeply nested Project2 folder, neither its contens.

so i have read svn help update (yes, i finally did so) and didn't find
anithing that looked like (and delete svn:externals while updating)

I was expecting those branches (my-dev-task, his-dev-task, other-dev-task)
to be deleted deleted on the svn update.

I do even think they sould be deleted (if there are no local changes in
the WC).
I know svn is tring to protect the data, but an up-to-date w/out local
changes
copy of the Project2 is no useful data, neither 3 extracopies of it.

Should a --remove-externals-wc or something alike be added to the svn
update command.?
Is there any other way to get this automated?
Is there anything i'm missing here?
What would you expect?

Thanks a lot.

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