svn fetch multiple directories

[Mark Brethen]

On Oct 12, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Mark Brethen <mark.brethen at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm breaking up an svn into different subports. It would save download time if I can checkout only the directories needed from the repository for each subport. Can you give multiple URLs for 'svn.url'? Similar to:
> 
> $ svn checkout file:///tmp/repos/test  file:///tmp/repos/quiz working-copies
> 
> which checks out 2 different directories, but places both into a directory called working-copies.
> 
> This isn't covered in the macports documentation.
> 
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> Mark
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Although svn allows checking out with more than one URL, apparently port does not:

--->  Fetching distfiles for reduce-common
Error: org.macports.fetch for port reduce-common returned: Subversion URL cannot contain whitespace

Any one know why? Is there a work around I can use?

Mark