Confused about svn:externals

SVN 1.2.3 on SuSE 10.1

I'm in the process of upgrading from M$ VSS and have encountered a problem.

I keep various aspects of my web site in separate directories and wish
to have a common file (index.php) in each directory. Under VSS, this was
easy using shares.

I have established that I need to set up SVN:Externals for this nut each
combination that I try results in an error:

svn: Error parsing svn:externals property on 'Web Site/Site Root'

My structure in SVN is:

'Web Site'
|
|-index
| --index.php
|
--'Site Root'
     |
     |-functions
     | |-function1.php
     | |-function2.php
     | --(index.php)
     |
     |-source
     |
     --images

and I'd like to have index.php included in Site Root, functions and
images. (the index directory has been set because I understand that I
can not share individual files so I've out the 'master' index.php in its
own directory.) As illustrated in functions, there will be other files
in each directory.

I'm trying to set, for example:

svn propset svn:externals "file:///repos/Web Site/index" "Web Site/Site
Root" from the directory which contains the working copy of the Web Site
structure.

What am I doing wrong to get the error above?

TIA

John

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Received on Mon Oct 23 11:53:47 2006