### Please describe the problem. Trying to apply certain commands - such as 'drop' - to a filename which starts with "-c" instead applies it to all files. In the instance where I found this, I was using "drop --force" and it caused it to indiscriminately get rid of everything in the directory instead of a single file. ### What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Make a repository. 2. Create several files and add them. 3. Create a file whose name begins with "-c" and add it as well. 4. Run "git annex drop " where 'fname' is the file from that last step. ### What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 4.20130516-gedc4ccd on Arch Linux ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ # If you can, paste a complete transcript of the problem occurring here. # If the problem is with the git-annex assistant, paste in .git/annex/daemon.log [user@host ~]$ mkdir annex_test [user@host ~]$ cd annex_test/ [user@host annex_test]$ ls [user@host annex_test]$ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/user/annex_test/.git/ [user@host annex_test]$ git annex init "test" init test ok (Recording state in git...) [user@host annex_test]$ [user@host annex_test]$ echo foo > foo [user@host annex_test]$ echo bar > bar [user@host annex_test]$ echo baz > baz [user@host annex_test]$ echo test > "-c-test" [user@host annex_test]$ git annex add * add bar (checksum...) ok add baz (checksum...) ok add foo (checksum...) ok (Recording state in git...) [user@host annex_test]$ git annex add -c-test add -c-test (checksum...) ok (Recording state in git...) [user@host annex_test]$ git annex drop -c-test drop -c-test (unsafe) Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies Rather than dropping this file, try using: git annex move (Use --force to override this check, or adjust annex.numcopies.) failed drop bar (unsafe) Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies Rather than dropping this file, try using: git annex move (Use --force to override this check, or adjust annex.numcopies.) failed drop baz (unsafe) Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies Rather than dropping this file, try using: git annex move (Use --force to override this check, or adjust annex.numcopies.) failed drop foo (unsafe) Could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies Rather than dropping this file, try using: git annex move (Use --force to override this check, or adjust annex.numcopies.) failed git-annex: drop: 4 failed # End of transcript or log. """]] > Closing, as this is basically user error. [[done]] --[[Joey]]