diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 97bed54fbd..c350ad0f83 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ have each person clone that repository with 'git clone':
 	cd project
 	git-init
 	git remote add origin server:/pub/project
-	git config --add remote.origin.fetch=+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*
+	git config --add remote.origin.fetch '+refs/remotes/*:refs/remotes/*'
 	git fetch
 # Initialize git-svn locally (be sure to use the same URL and -T/-b/-t options as were used on server)
 	git-svn init http://svn.foo.org/project
diff --git a/builtin-cat-file.c b/builtin-cat-file.c
index bd343efae7..880e75af5e 100644
--- a/builtin-cat-file.c
+++ b/builtin-cat-file.c
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ static int batch_one_object(const char *obj_name, int print_contents)
 		write_or_die(1, contents, size);
 		printf("\n");
 		fflush(stdout);
+		free(contents);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/builtin-upload-archive.c b/builtin-upload-archive.c
index 48ae09e9b5..371400d49a 100644
--- a/builtin-upload-archive.c
+++ b/builtin-upload-archive.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ static int run_upload_archive(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 	if (argc != 2)
 		usage(upload_archive_usage);
 
-	if (strlen(argv[1]) > sizeof(buf))
+	if (strlen(argv[1]) + 1 > sizeof(buf))
 		die("insanely long repository name");
 
 	strcpy(buf, argv[1]); /* enter-repo smudges its argument */
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index 4c9c59bc3f..f789a6eeca 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -1462,13 +1462,6 @@ sub verify_remotes_sanity {
 	}
 }
 
-# we allow more chars than remotes2config.sh...
-sub sanitize_remote_name {
-	my ($name) = @_;
-	$name =~ tr{A-Za-z0-9:,/+-}{.}c;
-	$name;
-}
-
 sub find_existing_remote {
 	my ($url, $remotes) = @_;
 	return undef if $no_reuse_existing;
@@ -2853,7 +2846,7 @@ sub _new {
 	unless (defined $ref_id && length $ref_id) {
 		$_[2] = $ref_id = $Git::SVN::default_ref_id;
 	}
-	$_[1] = $repo_id = sanitize_remote_name($repo_id);
+	$_[1] = $repo_id;
 	my $dir = "$ENV{GIT_DIR}/svn/$ref_id";
 	$_[3] = $path = '' unless (defined $path);
 	mkpath(["$ENV{GIT_DIR}/svn"]);
@@ -3243,7 +3236,9 @@ sub close_file {
 		my ($tmp_fh, $tmp_filename) = File::Temp::tempfile(UNLINK => 1);
 		my $result;
 		while ($result = sysread($fh, my $string, 1024)) {
-			syswrite($tmp_fh, $string, $result);
+			my $wrote = syswrite($tmp_fh, $string, $result);
+			defined($wrote) && $wrote == $result
+				or croak("write $tmp_filename: $!\n");
 		}
 		defined $result or croak $!;
 		close $tmp_fh or croak $!;
@@ -3251,6 +3246,7 @@ sub close_file {
 		close $fh or croak $!;
 
 		$hash = $::_repository->hash_and_insert_object($tmp_filename);
+		unlink($tmp_filename);
 		$hash =~ /^[a-f\d]{40}$/ or die "not a sha1: $hash\n";
 		close $fb->{base} or croak $!;
 	} else {
@@ -4704,8 +4700,7 @@ sub minimize_connections {
 
 		# skip existing cases where we already connect to the root
 		if (($ra->{url} eq $ra->{repos_root}) ||
-		    (Git::SVN::sanitize_remote_name($ra->{repos_root}) eq
-		     $repo_id)) {
+		    ($ra->{repos_root} eq $repo_id)) {
 			$root_repos->{$ra->{url}} = $repo_id;
 			next;
 		}
@@ -4744,8 +4739,7 @@ sub minimize_connections {
 	foreach my $url (keys %$new_urls) {
 		# see if we can re-use an existing [svn-remote "repo_id"]
 		# instead of creating a(n ugly) new section:
-		my $repo_id = $root_repos->{$url} ||
-		              Git::SVN::sanitize_remote_name($url);
+		my $repo_id = $root_repos->{$url} || $url;
 
 		my $fetch = $new_urls->{$url};
 		foreach my $path (keys %$fetch) {