Les Mikesell wrote on Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:03:11 -0600: > The current version uses the directory structure of your workspace to > hold the repository information, so it sort-of makes sense that you > can't mix files from different repositories in the same directory.
And why would this argument be less valid when subjected to s/files/dirs/ ? There is no reason file externals shouldn't be able to be cross-repository. (They were originally implemented in a way that doesn't allow that, but that's another story.)