How can I delete an external?

I recently added to directories to my repository. These directories are
external subversion checkouts and I have set them up as such in my
repository. After adding these directories, I created a branch. Now I want
to delete these externals in the branch but svn won't let me.
Let me illustrate. If the directories are there, I can delete them with
'rm' but not with 'svn rm' because svn complains they are not under revision
control. That's fine, I don't want them under revision control. However,
if the directories are not there and I do 'svn update' the directories are
replaced.

How can I delete these externals so they don't show up in my branch? Of
course I still want them in my trunk, but I don't think that is part of the
problem here.

I am using svn version 1.4.6 on Mac OSX

Thanks,
Jeremyw
Received on 2008-06-20 15:08:06 CEST