svn copy from wc to repository copies external files

I have a working copy of a project which has a file external in the project
root, "myexternalfile".

When I copy this working copy directly into the repository like this: (e.g.
because I want to tag the state of my working copy)
svn copy . http://www.example.com/tags/mytag

then the copy command will implicitly add "myexternalfile" to the tag. As a
result, I get this (expected) warning when trying to check out the tag:
svn: warning: The file external from 'http://www.example.com/somefiles/foo'
cannot overwrite the existing versioned item at 'myexternalfile'.

This behavior surprises me, because the content of "folder externals" are
NOT added when I do such a svn copy. I have also tried to copy with svn copy
--ignore-externals, but that doesn't change anything.

Is this a bug?

regards,

Wim Coenen

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