KSChan wrote: > And, svn:externals does not have a prompt so everything will be > checkout-ed for everyone by the externals definition.
This is not necessarily true, see http://svn.pear.php.net/wsvn/PEARSVN?op=comp&compare[]=%2f...@663&compare[]=%2f...@837 for an example of how to make a straight checkout do a whole bunch of externals checkouts. one simply does svn co http://svn.pear.php.net/PEAR2/all Greg