Re: bug report "svn propset"

>>>>> "Mantas" == Mantas Balnys <mantas.balnys_at_nomagic.com> writes:

 Mantas> OS: Fedora 8 SVN: 1.4.4

 Mantas> Example: svn propset "propname" "-propvalue" file.txt svn:
 Mantas> invalid option character: p

 Mantas> It seems that propvalue can't start with '-'

Yes, it can.

Unix switches (options) begin with "-", and modern apps allow options
to appear anywhere in the command line. So "-propvalue" is the switch
"-p" with value "ropvalue".

There is also a standard Unix convention that says "there are no more
options in this command line". That is the way you deal with command
arguments that begin with "-". And Subversion supports this. You do
this by inserting "--" (two dashes) after the last option.

For example:

    svn propset -q -- propname -propvalue file.txt

Here -q is an option but -propvalue is a command argument. This will
do what you asked for.

   paul

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