Re: bug report "svn propset"

Hello Paul

Thanks for your help. Anyway I think that such application behavior
should be changed. Property value can be any string and "svn help" does
not give any hint about this.

Sincerely,

Mantas Balnys
Programmer
No Magic Europe
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+370 37 320670
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Paul Koning wrote:
>>>>>> "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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