Emulating SVN's "externals" property

I want to be able to use BK for some projects, but I could really use 
the SVN "externals" property functionality. For those that are not 
familiar with it, here's how it works:

Let's say I have a repo called "master", and two more called "docs" and 
"examples". I keep these separate because different teams work on them, 
and security is easier to manage this way.

However, whenever anyone clones "master", they should get a clone of 
"docs" into a docs subdirectory of master, and the same for "examples". 
This clone could be read-only or read-write in SVN; in BK it would 
always be read-write, but the URL used for the parent may not allow 
pushes for the user doing the edits (which is fine).

In SVN, this would be done by:

# cd master
# svn propset svn:externals "docs svn://svn.foo.org/repos/docs examples 
svn://svn.foo.org/repos/examples"

(or something like that, the syntax could be off a bit)

This puts a property onto the root directory of the repo that tells SVN 
to do these additional checkouts (into the named subdirectories, which 
do not exist in the "master" repo) whenever the "master" repo is checked 
out.

I figure something like this could be done with BK using a trigger that 
runs at clone time, in the new clone (not in the master). Is this 
possible? Can someone who has large amounts of BK-foo in their brain 
give me a hint? <G>
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