Both the escaping of the '-' and adding '--' before the filename did the trick :-) Thanks!
BTW, This was on Windows. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Ryan Schmidt < subversion-20...@ryandesign.com> wrote: > > On Mar 15, 2010, at 16:12, Aaron Friesen wrote: > > > From: Itamar O [mailto:itamar...@gmail.com] > >> I have an unversioned file named "- example.txt" (don't ask why..), > >> and when I 'svn add "- example.txt"' I get: > >> svn: invalid option character: > >> Type 'svn help' for usage. > > > > Try: > > > > svn add -- "- example.txt" > > FYI, this is not unique to Subversion; most UNIX command line programs have > this behavior. > >
