For the assertion-failure side (vs proper error reporting or automatic path canonicalization), I've reported the following bug upstream:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4612 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

