FYI - looks like there is a bad url in svn... $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/zookeeper/branches/branch-3.2 branch-3.2
... A branch-3.2/build.xml Fetching external item into 'branch-3.2/src/java/test/bin' svn: URL 'http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/nightly/test-patch' doesn't exist This does not repro w/ 3.1: $ svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/zookeeper/branches/branch-3.1 branch-3.1 -Todd