diff --git a/common/CHANGES.txt b/common/CHANGES.txt
index b0b9cc4e1c..86b096b94d 100644
--- a/common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
     plain text (Luke Lu)
     -r 1079164: No need to escape plain text (Luke Lu)
 
+    HADOOP-7471. The saveVersion.sh script sometimes fails to extract SVN URL.
+    (Alejandro Abdelnur via eli)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/common/src/saveVersion.sh b/common/src/saveVersion.sh
index aef6967e17..93ce7ecdb6 100755
--- a/common/src/saveVersion.sh
+++ b/common/src/saveVersion.sh
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ if git rev-parse HEAD 2>/dev/null > /dev/null ; then
   url="git://${hostname}${cwd}"
 elif [ -d .svn ]; then
   revision=`svn info | sed -n -e 's/Last Changed Rev: \(.*\)/\1/p'`
-  url=`svn info | sed -n -e 's/URL: \(.*\)/\1/p'`
+  url=`svn info | sed -n -e 's/^URL: \(.*\)/\1/p'`
   # Get canonical branch (branches/X, tags/X, or trunk)
   branch=`echo $url | sed -n -e 's,.*\(branches/.*\)$,\1,p' \
                              -e 's,.*\(tags/.*\)$,\1,p' \