Set SVN svn:externals In Command Line

Use this command if you wish to include the pysphere code inside your project repository:

svn propset svn:externals 'pysphere http://pysphere.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/' .

Note that dot at the end of the command and the quotes around the directory name and url.

Now commit with:

svn commit

and then update:

svn up

In order to set multiple directory/url pairs in a single svn:externals property, you should put the individual dir/url pairs into a file (let's call it 'svn.externals'), like so:

pysphere http://pysphere.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
some_other_lib http://svn.some-other-lib.org/trunk/

and then apply the property using

svn propset svn:externals -F svn.externals .

You should also just check in 'svn.externals' to easily keep track of it.

You can also use:

svn propedit svn:externals .

an editor will open and you can add the external repositories, one per line, like this:

path/to/extenal http://url/of/repo