diff --git a/contrib/_subversion b/contrib/_subversion
index a216b222..9cdd3668 100644
--- a/contrib/_subversion
+++ b/contrib/_subversion
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ _svn()
 
 	return 0
 }
-complete -F _svn $default svn
+complete -F _svn $filenames svn
 
 _svnadmin()
 {
@@ -420,4 +420,4 @@ _svnlook()
 	return 0
 }
 complete -F _svnlook $default svnlook
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 42ef3e7f..820f80f7 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ bash-completion (200811xx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * Added minimal sqlite3 completion (Ville Skyttä).
   * Improved getent completion (Ville Skyttä, Guillaume Rousse).
   * (Re)fix gzip and bzip2 options completion (Ville Skyttä).
+  * Improved svn filename completion (RHBZ: #430059) (Ville Skyttä).
   * Merge from Gentoo:
     - fix 'find' completion so that it properly completes on -?(i)whilename.
       Patch by Ciaran McCreesh.