Checking out this folder verses a trunk itself may be preferrable for our developers. It will contain all the current project trunks so interdependencies and refactoring do not result in unnecessary work for both studio and apacheds developers who both depend on shared and apacheds modules. This folder contains externals to the apacheds and studio trunks and their dependencies. The branches pointed to for shared and daemon may not always by the trunk and the externals may or may not be to a writable branch: meaning it may point to a release with read-only http instead of read-write https URL scheme. Before you commit, or deploy stuff please make sure you check these externals so you don't commit to a branch you do not want to or deploy to production non-snapshot repositories.