diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index d2404184ba..aa242d4f4f 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -1865,6 +1865,7 @@ sub get_commit_entry {
 			}
 		}
 		$msgbuf =~ s/\s+$//s;
+		$msgbuf =~ s/\r\n/\n/sg; # SVN 1.6+ disallows CRLF
 		if ($Git::SVN::_add_author_from && defined($author)
 		    && !$saw_from) {
 			$msgbuf .= "\n\nFrom: $author";
diff --git a/t/t9169-git-svn-dcommit-crlf.sh b/t/t9169-git-svn-dcommit-crlf.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..54b1f61a2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t9169-git-svn-dcommit-crlf.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='git svn dcommit CRLF'
+. ./lib-git-svn.sh
+
+test_expect_success 'setup commit repository' '
+	svn_cmd mkdir -m "$test_description" "$svnrepo/dir" &&
+	git svn clone "$svnrepo" work &&
+	(
+		cd work &&
+		echo foo >>foo &&
+		git update-index --add foo &&
+		printf "a\\r\\n\\r\\nb\\r\\nc\\r\\n" >cmt &&
+		p=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+		t=$(git write-tree) &&
+		cmt=$(git commit-tree -p $p $t <cmt) &&
+		git update-ref refs/heads/master $cmt &&
+		git cat-file commit HEAD | tail -n4 >out &&
+		test_cmp cmt out &&
+		git svn dcommit &&
+		printf "a\\n\\nb\\nc\\n" >exp &&
+		git cat-file commit HEAD | sed -ne 6,9p >out &&
+		test_cmp exp out
+	)
+'
+
+test_done