I just noticed this $ svn up
Fetching external item into 'continuum-rpc-client\src\main\mdo' External at revision 515905. At revision 515905. It comes from Author: evenisse Date: Mon Feb 26 06:11:01 2007 New Revision: 511810 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=511810 Log: Generate non-enhanced model classes /svn/maven/continuum/continuum-rpc-client/src/main $ svn propget svn:externals . mdo https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/continuum/trunk/continuum-model/src/main/mdo With this setup, we'll need to remember to edit svn:externals on any tags, otherwise the externals definition will continue to point to trunk, and building from the tag may not produce the same results. -- Wendy