diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
index 127409e..e976349 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_urlparse.py
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@
         self.checkJoin('http:///', '..','http:///')
         self.checkJoin('', 'http://a/b/c/g?y/./x','http://a/b/c/g?y/./x')
         self.checkJoin('', 'http://a/./g', 'http://a/./g')
+        self.checkJoin('svn://pathtorepo/dir1','dir2','svn://pathtorepo/dir2')
 
     def test_RFC2732(self):
         for url, hostname, port in [
diff --git a/Lib/urlparse.py b/Lib/urlparse.py
index e5528fa..2d53603 100644
--- a/Lib/urlparse.py
+++ b/Lib/urlparse.py
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
 # A classification of schemes ('' means apply by default)
 uses_relative = ['ftp', 'http', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'imap',
                  'wais', 'file', 'https', 'shttp', 'mms',
-                 'prospero', 'rtsp', 'rtspu', '', 'sftp']
+                 'prospero', 'rtsp', 'rtspu', '', 'sftp',
+                 'svn']
 uses_netloc = ['ftp', 'http', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'telnet',
                'imap', 'wais', 'file', 'mms', 'https', 'shttp',
                'snews', 'prospero', 'rtsp', 'rtspu', 'rsync', '',