title: How to correctly set an external path on SVN?
body: <p>I'm trying to set an external path on SVN. Here is what I do in SVN:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Right click on folder where I want an external</li>
  <li>Select "Show Properties"</li>
  <li>New -> Externals</li>
  <li>In "Externals", I click New</li>
  <li><p>At local path, I tried setting the path I wanted, but whatever I set, when I update the files, it adds the path I wrote to the folder which I added the external. For example my folder on SVN is "Externals". If I set Local path to <code>^/trunk/external</code>, when I'll commit it tries to fetch files from <code>(all the long path before)/Externals/^/trunk/Externals</code>. How do I tell it that the local path is the current directory? If I set nothing, it complains, if I set <code>./</code> it complains...</p></li>
  <li><p>For the URL where to fetch files from, it sometimes works when I set a file, but not a folder?</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Note: I used <a href="http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-externals.html" rel="nofollow">this site</a> but unfortunately, the part where I have trouble just says:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>To add a new external, click the New... and then fill in the <strong>required</strong> information in the shown dialog.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I read the tips afters but they don't help... If someone has a concrete example it would help a lot.</p>