diff --git a/src/Composer/Downloader/SvnDownloader.php b/src/Composer/Downloader/SvnDownloader.php
index 0281862b5..634c4a7d5 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Downloader/SvnDownloader.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Downloader/SvnDownloader.php
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ class SvnDownloader extends VcsDownloader
      */
     protected function getCommitLogs($fromReference, $toReference, $path)
     {
-        if (preg_match('{.*@(\d+)$}', $fromReference) && preg_match('{.*@(\d+)$}', $toReference)) {
+        if (preg_match('{@(\d+)$}', $fromReference) && preg_match('{@(\d+)$}', $toReference)) {
             // retrieve the svn base url from the checkout folder
             $command = sprintf('svn info --non-interactive --xml %s', ProcessExecutor::escape($path));
             if (0 !== $this->process->execute($command, $output, $path)) {
diff --git a/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php b/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php
index f9d3155c1..5f68de635 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Repository/ComposerRepository.php
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ class ComposerRepository extends ArrayRepository implements ConfigurableReposito
         }
 
         // url-encode $ signs in URLs as bad proxies choke on them
-        if (($pos = strpos($filename, '$')) && preg_match('{^https?://.*}i', $filename)) {
+        if (($pos = strpos($filename, '$')) && preg_match('{^https?://}i', $filename)) {
             $filename = substr($filename, 0, $pos) . '%24' . substr($filename, $pos + 1);
         }