on solaris the perl bindings dump a core when an url contains a space,
see https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=4854. an excerpt:
The SVN::Ra bindings core dump with the following error:
$ perl ./test.pl
svn: E235000: In file 'subversion/libsvn_subr/dirent_uri.c' line 2291:
assertion failed (svn_uri_is_canonical(url, pool))
Abort (core dumped)
The content of test.pl:
require SVN::Ra;
$s = SVN::Ra->new('file:///home/bwalton/opencsw/git/trunk/work/
solaris9-sparc/build-isa-sparcv8/git-1.7.7.1/t/trash [^]
directory.t9134-git-svn-ignore-paths/svnrepo');
