External repositories in subversion
Edit the svn:externals property for the directory where the external stuff will go into svn propedit svn:externals . Add a line for each external entry you want to have: local/path http://external/repo local/path2 -r### http://external/repo Example for me adding jokey's virtualbox ebuilds: svn pe svn:externals /var/repos/chutz/app-emulation virtualbox http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/jokey/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox virtualbox-additions http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/jokey/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox-additions virtualbox-bin http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/jokey/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox-bin virtualbox-guest-additions http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/jokey/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions virtualbox-modules http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/jokey/trunk/app-emulation/virtualbox-modules The original tip was here .