git-svn: regression with funny chars in svn repo url

I keep a copy of the gtk+ svn repository on my machine and I have noticed the following bug with git-svn:

~/gitproj/gtk+$ which git-svn /usr/local/bin/git-svn

~/gitproj/gtk+$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/git-svn lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 39 2008-03-30 07:45 /usr/local/bin/git-svn -> ../encap/git-1.5.4_20080328/bin/git-svn

~/gitproj/gtk+$ git-svn --version git-svn version 1.5.4.5 (svn 1.4.6)

~/gitproj/gtk+$ git-svn rebase Apache got a malformed URI: REPORT request failed on '/svn/gtk+/!svn/vcc/default': Unusable URI: it does not refer to this repository at /usr/local/bin/git-svn line 3821

This bug did not exist in a previous version:

vozzer@kermit:~/gitproj/gtk+$ ls -l /usr/local/encap/git-1.5.3_20071207/bin/git-svn -rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 119648 2007-12-08 10:53 /usr/local/encap/git-1.5.3_20071207/bin/git-svn vozzer@kermit:~/gitproj/gtk+$ /usr/local/encap/git-1.5.3_20071207/bin/git-svn --version git-svn version 1.5.3.7.8.g8e742 (svn 1.4.6) vozzer@kermit:~/gitproj/gtk+$ /usr/local/encap/git-1.5.3_20071207/bin/git-svn rebase

        M       gtk/gtk-builder-convert
        M       ChangeLog
r19608 = af3d481e25db0e168a33b94e14480d72af5effe4 (gtk-2-12)
[snipped]

, proceeds normally. I have included the output of `git-svn --version' above for both versions, but also take note of the encap directories for approximate dates: the working version was built from a fresh checkout on 2007-12-07, the non-working version was built from yesterdays checkout.

For reference, the url for the gtk+ svn repo is:

http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+/trunk

I initialized the git-svn repo with the usual '-T trunk -t tags -b branches' args.

regards, panagiotis.

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