Externals

Use Properties|Externals to define or change externals. An external (officially also referred to as externals definition) is a mapping of a Local Path to an URL (and possibly a particular Revision) of a versioned resource. For a detailed description of externals and valid URL formats, refer to http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.externals.html.

Example

To include the external http://server/svn/foo as directory bar/bazz at revision 4711 into your project, select directory bar and invoke Properties|Externals. Enter bazz into the Local Path input field, http://server/svn/foo into the URL input field, 4711 to the Revision input field and click Add. After committing your property change, an update on bar will create the subdirectory bar/bazz with the content from http://server/svn/foo at revision 4711.

Tip

It is safer to always set a Revision to externals. In this way you can always be sure about which actual version you are working with. When you decide to use a more recent revision of the external, you can evaluate it before and if you are satisfied, increase the Revision number of the external definition.