Index: vcpx/darcs.py
===================================================================
--- vcpx/darcs.py	(revision 777)
+++ vcpx/darcs.py	(revision 778)
@@ -332,7 +332,9 @@
         else:
             # Use much faster 'darcs get'
-            cmd = self.repository.command("get", "--partial", "--quiet")
+            cmd = self.repository.command("get", "--quiet")
             if revision and revision<>'HEAD':
                 cmd.extend([initial and "--to-match" or "--tag", revision])
+            else:
+                cmd.append("--partial")
             dget = ExternalCommand(command=cmd)
             output = dget.execute(self.repository.repository, self.basedir,
Index: vcpx/tests/svn.py
===================================================================
--- vcpx/tests/svn.py	(revision 674)
+++ vcpx/tests/svn.py	(revision 779)
@@ -450,2 +450,29 @@
         self.assertEqual(entry.name, 'documentation/test.txt')
         self.assertEqual(entry.action_kind, entry.UPDATED)
+
+    ENCODING_TEST = """\
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<log>
+<logentry
+   revision="7564">
+<author>fschulze</author>
+<date>2005-07-20T17:47:53.425055Z</date>
+<msg>Fix http://members.plone.org/collector/4034 — Collapsible fieldsets need a full width mode.</msg>
+</logentry>
+</log>
+"""
+    def testUnicode(self):
+        """Verify svn parser returns unicode strings"""
+
+        log = StringIO(self.ENCODING_TEST)
+        csets = changesets_from_svnlog(log,
+                                       'http://svn.plone.org/plone/CMFPlone',
+                                       '/branches/2.1')
+
+        self.assertEqual(len(csets), 1)
+
+        log = csets[0].log
+        self.assertEqual(type(log), type(u'€'))
+        self.assertEqual(len(log), 91)
+        self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError, log.encode, 'iso-8859-1')
+        self.assertEqual(len(log.encode('ascii', 'ignore')), 90)