diff -r 20d849251fe6 -r 29e3c4a7699b mercurial/subrepo.py
--- a/mercurial/subrepo.py	Sat Jan 02 15:48:05 2010 +0100
+++ b/mercurial/subrepo.py	Sat Jan 02 16:03:25 2010 +0100
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
         cmd = ['svn'] + commands + [self._path]
         cmd = [util.shellquote(arg) for arg in cmd]
         cmd = util.quotecommand(' '.join(cmd))
-        write, read, err = util.popen3(cmd)
+        write, read, err = util.popen3(cmd, newlines=True)
         retdata = read.read()
         err = err.read().strip()
         if err: