SubVersion crash in TortoiseSVN 1.8.8

This crash happened in TortoiseSVN 1.8.8, which is based on Apache SubVersion 1.8.10, both of which are the latest release versions. It happened on 32-bit Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3. It occurred when I was trying to view the difference between 2 previous revisions of a file in an SVN repository that uses the svn+ssh:// protocol, on SourceForge. I get this crash very often in TortoiseSVN 1.8.8 and the error message says to post an email to this email address. However the error message is exactly the same every time. So I am only emailing this bug in once even though it keeps happening again and again and again. Please fix it so I don't have to deal with this annoying bug anymore. I think the error message itself,

In file
 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.8.8\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c'
 line 8731: assertion failed (svn_dirent_is_absolute(local_abspath)),

that error message ought to be more than enough for you to figure out what went wrong, it says exactly what line of source code has the error, line 8731 of wc_db.c, and it says what the error is too. Anyway I get this error ALL THE TIME now so please fix it.

Also maybe you should have Apache SubVersion automatically report crash reports to https://drdump.com/ the way TortoiseSVN does so that users like me don't have to manually email these crash reports in and so you can get an accurate count of how often the crashes actually occur. Drdump.com is the new name for crash-server.com, anyway an explanation of it is on the TortoiseSVN site here: http://tortoisesvn.net/crashhandler.html. Automated crash reports would make the program more stable and allow you to accurately track statistics on each type of crash to prioritize fixing the most common ones first, and you wouldn't need people to send in emails of crash reports anymore.
Here is the crash log:

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Subversion Exception!
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Subversion encountered a serious problem.
Please take the time to report this on the Subversion mailing list
with as much information as possible about what
you were trying to do.
But please first search the mailing list archives for the error message
to avoid reporting the same problem repeatedly.
You can find the mailing list archives at
http://subversion.apache.org/mailing-lists.html

Subversion reported the following
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In file
 'D:\Development\SVN\Releases\TortoiseSVN-1.8.8\ext\subversion\subversion\libsvn_wc\wc_db.c'
 line 8731: assertion failed (svn_dirent_is_absolute(local_abspath))
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OK
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Thanks,
Rich McGrew, open-source programmer
Received on 2014-09-05 11:04:42 CEST