diff --git a/app/views/repositories/_breadcrumbs.html.erb b/app/views/repositories/_breadcrumbs.html.erb
index 233416477..86fe28cb5 100644
--- a/app/views/repositories/_breadcrumbs.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/repositories/_breadcrumbs.html.erb
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 <%= link_to(@repository.identifier.present? ? h(@repository.identifier) : 'root', 
-      :action => 'show', :id => @project, :repository_id => @repository.identifier_param, :path => '', :rev => @rev) %>
+      :action => 'show', :id => @project,
+      :repository_id => @repository.identifier_param,
+      :path => nil, :rev => @rev) %>
 <%
 dirs = path.split('/')
 if 'file' == kind
diff --git a/test/functional/repositories_subversion_controller_test.rb b/test/functional/repositories_subversion_controller_test.rb
index 4e9bde9d2..188dd2fd8 100644
--- a/test/functional/repositories_subversion_controller_test.rb
+++ b/test/functional/repositories_subversion_controller_test.rb
@@ -67,6 +67,9 @@ class RepositoriesSubversionControllerTest < ActionController::TestCase
       assert_tag 'input', :attributes => {:name => 'rev'}
       assert_tag 'a', :content => 'Statistics'
       assert_tag 'a', :content => 'Atom'
+      assert_tag :tag => 'a',
+                 :attributes => {:href => '/projects/subproject1/repository'},
+                 :content => 'root'
     end
 
     def test_show_non_default