svn co url://some/url name-of-directory-you-want
De svn help checkout
:
$ svn help checkout
checkout (co): Check out a working copy from a repository.
usage: checkout URL[@REV]... [PATH]
If specified, REV determines in which revision the URL is first
looked up.
If PATH is omitted, the basename of the URL will be used as
the destination. If multiple URLs are given each will be checked
out into a sub-directory of PATH, with the name of the sub-directory
being the basename of the URL.
Esse último argumento que você vê ( [PATH]
) é o caminho para o diretório onde você quer que ele seja retirado.