SVN symbolic rules ignored when prepended with slashes

FishEye seems to be very restrictive regarding symbolic rules regexp matching. Leading slashes will cause the rule to not match - this is difficult to spot and wrong symbolic rules may negatively impact the repository indexing time.

Consider configuration:

• repository url: file:///svn/repo
• repository base path: myProject

and the following file in the repository: file:///svn/repo/myProject/subProject/branches/branchX/file.txt

The following SVN branch symbolic rule would work fine:

subProject/branches/([^/]+)

but this one would not:

/subProject/branches/([^/]+)