Subversion Gotcha: "Malformed URL" When Merging

Here's a wacky issue that occurs on Windows in both TortoiseSVN and command-line subversion. When doing a merge, Tortoise complains of a "Malformed URL" and fails.

To fix, you only need to insert an '@' in the url, right before the server name.  So, this:

svn merge -r 159:162 http://lndev.atmosphere.net/repos/fedex/fedexcup09/trunk .

becomes this:

svn merge -r 159:162 http://@lndev.atmosphere.net/repos/fedex/fedexcup09/trunk .

References:

• Subversion 1.5 beta1, "malformed URL for repository" when merging over http