--- a/src/hg-ssh	Sat Dec 19 16:31:31 2009 +0000
+++ b/src/hg-ssh	Sat Dec 19 16:32:17 2009 +0000
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
 def getrepo(op, repo):
     # First canonicalise, then check the string, then the rules
     # and finally the filesystem.
-    repo = repo.rstrip("/")
+    repo = repo.strip().rstrip("/")
     if len(repo) == 0:
         fail("path to repository seems to be empty")
     if repo.startswith("/"):
@@ -59,6 +59,9 @@
 
 config.initExe()
 
+for k,v in config.getEnv():
+    os.environ[k.upper()] = v
+
 if len(sys.argv) == 3 and sys.argv[1] == "--base64":
     ruleset.rules.set(user = base64.b64decode(sys.argv[2]))
 elif len(sys.argv) == 2:
@@ -67,9 +70,6 @@
     fail("hg-ssh wrongly called, is authorized_keys corrupt? (%s)" 
         % sys.argv)
 
-for k,v in config.getEnv():
-    os.environ[k.upper()] = v
-
 os.chdir(config.getReposPath())
 
 for f in config.getAccessPaths():