Working on a subset of a directory

Hi!

I co-worker lately came with the question if it is possible to work
(locally) only on a subset of directories. This works fine using the
'-N' parameter when checking out a top dir and then updating just the
subdirs he is interested in:

$ svn co -N REPO/top ~/top
$ cd ~/top
$ svn up dir1 dir4 # assume we have dir1 ... dir5 under top

Now, whenever he does a 'svn st' only changes in dir1 and dir4 are
reported (dir2, dir3 and dir5) are not mentioned at all by svn. So far
so good.

At some point he might *temporarily* be interested also in an
additional subdir, ie.

$ cd ~/top
$ svn up dir3

After fixing some stuff in that dir, he want to (locally) get rid of
it. The problem: If he removes it (with 'rm -rf dir3') the svn status
command reports that dir3 is missing:

$ cd ~/top
$ svn st
! dir3

The other dirs (dir2 and dir5 - never updated before) are still not
reported.

Is there any way (other than removing 'dir3' from the .svn/entries
file) to tell svn that we are not interested in 'dir3' anymore?

Thanks alot!

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chris
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