From 7e67491049240fd9007864c9e79f01bcfc4e901a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad Dunbar <dunbarb2@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:49:50 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Leave out unnecessary trailing slash.

---
 backbone.js    | 3 ++-
 test/router.js | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backbone.js b/backbone.js
index b44ccaa8..765ff5c6 100644
--- a/backbone.js
+++ b/backbone.js
@@ -1481,7 +1481,8 @@
         // If we've started off with a route from a `pushState`-enabled
         // browser, but we're currently in a browser that doesn't support it...
         if (!this._hasPushState && !this.atRoot()) {
-          this.location.replace(this.root + '#' + this.getPath());
+          var root = this.root.slice(0, -1) || '/';
+          this.location.replace(root + '#' + this.getPath());
           // Return immediately as browser will do redirect to new url
           return true;
 
diff --git a/test/router.js b/test/router.js
index 407c332d..1fa22e63 100644
--- a/test/router.js
+++ b/test/router.js
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@
     Backbone.history.stop();
     location.replace('http://example.com/root/x/y?a=b');
     location.replace = function(url) {
-      strictEqual(url, '/root/#x/y?a=b');
+      strictEqual(url, '/root#x/y?a=b');
     };
     Backbone.history = _.extend(new Backbone.History, {
       location: location,
@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@
     Backbone.history.stop();
     location.replace('/root?foo=bar');
     location.replace = function(url) {
-      strictEqual(url, '/root/#?foo=bar');
+      strictEqual(url, '/root#?foo=bar');
     };
     Backbone.history = _.extend(new Backbone.History, {
       location: location,