First of all, setting properties on the YASA project svk:project:path-tags => tags/ svk:project:path-trunk => trunk/yasa/ svk:project:path-branches => branches/ Then, svk mi /yasa/mirror/yasa http://localhost/repos/yasa % svk sync /yasa/mirror/yasa % perl -Isvk/trunk/lib /usr/local/bin/svk br -l /yasa/mirror/yasa yasa-freq Works