~ $ svnadmin create testrepo

~ $ svn co file://`pwd`/testrepo testwc1
Checked out revision 0.

~ $ cd testwc1
~/testwc1 $ svn mkdir foo 
A         foo
~/testwc1 $ cd foo
~/testwc1/foo $ echo "text file" > demo.txt 
~/testwc1/foo $ svn add demo.txt 
A         demo.txt
~/testwc1/foo $ cd ..
~/testwc1 $ svn commit -m 'Created demo layout'
Adding         foo
Adding         foo/demo.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 1.

~/testwc1 $ cd ..
~ $ svn co file://`pwd`/testrepo testwc2
A    testwc2/foo
A    testwc2/foo/demo.txt
Checked out revision 1.

~ $ cd testwc1/foo/
~/testwc1/foo $ svn mkdir bar
A         bar
~/testwc1/foo $ cd bar/
~/testwc1/foo/bar $ echo "more text" > demo_bar.txt
~/testwc1/foo/bar $ svn add demo_bar.txt 
A         demo_bar.txt
~/testwc1/foo/bar $ cd ..
~/testwc1/foo $ svn commit -m 'Created some depth'
Adding         foo/bar
Adding         foo/bar/demo_bar.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 2.

~/testwc1/foo $ cd ..
~/testwc1 $ cd ..

~ $ cd testwc2
~/testwc2 $ svn up
A    foo/bar
A    foo/bar/demo_bar.txt
Updated to revision 2.

~/testwc2 $ svn rm foo
D         foo/demo.txt
D         foo/bar/demo_bar.txt
D         foo/bar
D         foo

~/testwc2 $ cd ..
~ $ cp -R testwc1/foo foo
~ $ find foo -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;

~ $ cd testwc2
~/testwc2 $ cp -R ../foo/ foo/
~/testwc2 $ svn add foo
A         foo
A         foo/bar
A         foo/bar/demo_bar.txt
A         foo/demo.txt