How to delete "-" file from svn?

Question

Accidentally I have created file "-" (just a minus) in a directory and commited it. I have to delete it because its causing error on other machines: svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding: svn: ?\226?\128?\147

I can remove it from local directory using "rm -i *" or with python "os.remove('\xe2\x80\x93')" but those methods do not work with "svn rm".

How to delete such file from svn repository?

Answer 1

Usually, you need to terminate the list of command line options using a -- marker.

Try something like svn rm -- -.

Same if you want to remove the directory from the file system: rm -r -- -.