diff --git a/doc/00-intro.md b/doc/00-intro.md
index 3509a59d3..046fea8fe 100644
--- a/doc/00-intro.md
+++ b/doc/00-intro.md
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ you can run this to move composer.phar to a directory that is in your path:
 mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
 ```
 
+If you like to install it only for your user and avoid requiring root permissions,
+you can use `~/.local/bin` instead which is available by default on some
+Linux distributions.
+
 > **Note:** If the above fails due to permissions, you may need to run it again
 > with sudo.
 
diff --git a/src/Composer/IO/IOInterface.php b/src/Composer/IO/IOInterface.php
index 75c86de20..5766ba479 100644
--- a/src/Composer/IO/IOInterface.php
+++ b/src/Composer/IO/IOInterface.php
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ interface IOInterface
     /**
      * Asks a question to the user.
      *
-     * @param string|array $question The question to ask
-     * @param string       $default  The default answer if none is given by the user
+     * @param string $question The question to ask
+     * @param string $default  The default answer if none is given by the user
      *
      * @throws \RuntimeException If there is no data to read in the input stream
      * @return string            The user answer
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ interface IOInterface
      *
      * The question will be asked until the user answers by nothing, yes, or no.
      *
-     * @param string|array $question The question to ask
-     * @param bool         $default  The default answer if the user enters nothing
+     * @param string $question The question to ask
+     * @param bool   $default  The default answer if the user enters nothing
      *
      * @return bool true if the user has confirmed, false otherwise
      */
@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@ interface IOInterface
      * validated data when the data is valid and throw an exception
      * otherwise.
      *
-     * @param string|array $question  The question to ask
-     * @param callable     $validator A PHP callback
-     * @param null|int     $attempts  Max number of times to ask before giving up (default of null means infinite)
-     * @param mixed        $default   The default answer if none is given by the user
+     * @param string   $question  The question to ask
+     * @param callable $validator A PHP callback
+     * @param null|int $attempts  Max number of times to ask before giving up (default of null means infinite)
+     * @param mixed    $default   The default answer if none is given by the user
      *
      * @throws \Exception When any of the validators return an error
      * @return mixed
@@ -152,12 +152,12 @@ interface IOInterface
     /**
      * Asks the user to select a value.
      *
-     * @param string|array $question     The question to ask
-     * @param array        $choices      List of choices to pick from
-     * @param bool|string  $default      The default answer if the user enters nothing
-     * @param bool|int     $attempts     Max number of times to ask before giving up (false by default, which means infinite)
-     * @param string       $errorMessage Message which will be shown if invalid value from choice list would be picked
-     * @param bool         $multiselect  Select more than one value separated by comma
+     * @param string      $question     The question to ask
+     * @param array       $choices      List of choices to pick from
+     * @param bool|string $default      The default answer if the user enters nothing
+     * @param bool|int    $attempts     Max number of times to ask before giving up (false by default, which means infinite)
+     * @param string      $errorMessage Message which will be shown if invalid value from choice list would be picked
+     * @param bool        $multiselect  Select more than one value separated by comma
      *
      * @throws \InvalidArgumentException
      * @return int|string|array          The selected value or values (the key of the choices array)
diff --git a/src/Composer/Package/Locker.php b/src/Composer/Package/Locker.php
index fe2616cb4..7fbe536f2 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Package/Locker.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Package/Locker.php
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ class Locker
     {
         $lock = array(
             '_readme' => array('This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state',
-                               'Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file',
+                               'Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies',
                                'This file is @gener'.'ated automatically', ),
             'content-hash' => $this->contentHash,
             'packages' => null,
diff --git a/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/SvnDriver.php b/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/SvnDriver.php
index 1faba8195..822510601 100644
--- a/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/SvnDriver.php
+++ b/src/Composer/Repository/Vcs/SvnDriver.php
@@ -115,19 +115,38 @@ class SvnDriver extends VcsDriver
         return null;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@inheritdoc}
+     */
+    protected function shouldCache($identifier)
+    {
+        return $this->cache && preg_match('{@\d+$}', $identifier);
+    }
+
     /**
      * {@inheritdoc}
      */
     public function getComposerInformation($identifier)
     {
         if (!isset($this->infoCache[$identifier])) {
-            if ($res = $this->cache->read($identifier.'.json')) {
+            if ($this->shouldCache($identifier) && $res = $this->cache->read($identifier.'.json')) {
                 return $this->infoCache[$identifier] = JsonFile::parseJson($res);
             }
 
-            $composer = $this->getBaseComposerInformation($identifier);
+            try {
+                $composer = $this->getBaseComposerInformation($identifier);
+            } catch(TransportException $e) {
+                $message = $e->getMessage();
+                if (stripos($message, 'path not found') === false && stripos($message, 'svn: warning: W160013') === false) {
+                    throw $e;
+                }
+                // remember a not-existent composer.json
+                $composer = '';
+            }
 
-            $this->cache->write($identifier.'.json', json_encode($composer));
+            if ($this->shouldCache($identifier)) {
+                $this->cache->write($identifier.'.json', json_encode($composer));
+            }
 
             $this->infoCache[$identifier] = $composer;
         }
diff --git a/tests/Composer/Test/Package/LockerTest.php b/tests/Composer/Test/Package/LockerTest.php
index a37e09907..b5692b009 100644
--- a/tests/Composer/Test/Package/LockerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Composer/Test/Package/LockerTest.php
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ class LockerTest extends TestCase
             ->method('write')
             ->with(array(
                 '_readme' => array('This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state',
-                                   'Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#composer-lock-the-lock-file',
+                                   'Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies',
                                    'This file is @gener'.'ated automatically', ),
                 'content-hash' => $contentHash,
                 'packages' => array(