diff --git a/lib/scm/subversion.class.php b/lib/scm/subversion.class.php
index 5eb5b3a63f..fca5841743 100644
--- a/lib/scm/subversion.class.php
+++ b/lib/scm/subversion.class.php
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Subversion
     public function __construct($client, $root, $account, $password, $encoding = 'UTF-8')
     {
         putenv('LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8');
-        $this->root     = rtrim($root, DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
+        $this->root     = str_replace(array('%3A', '%2F'), array(':', '/'), urlencode(rtrim($root, '/')));
         $this->account  = $account;
         $this->password = $password;
         $this->encoding = $encoding;
diff --git a/module/repo/model.php b/module/repo/model.php
index 171df57df7..083dff41f0 100644
--- a/module/repo/model.php
+++ b/module/repo/model.php
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ class repoModel extends model
 
         if($scm == 'Subversion')
         {
-            $path = '"' . $path . '"';
+            $path = '"' . str_replace(array('%3A', '%2F'), array(':', '/'), urlencode($path)) . '"';
             if(stripos($path, 'https://') === 1 or stripos($path, 'svn://') === 1)
             {
                 $ssh     = true;