From: faux@goeswhere.com
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:57:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug: problem with file named with dash character
Message-ID: <20120627095735.GA19118@goeswhere.com>
In-Reply-To: <80a7ce17-3ee7-4f09-b984-b6685e163b87@office.digitalus.nl>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:32:21AM +0200, Daniel Lyubomirov -|- Digitalus Bulgaria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Аccidentally my colleague created a file in the root dir of the git repo called - (just dash).
> As result for every commit having this file, diff , merge, cherry-pick maybe others just hang.
> I tried to make rebase interactive to edit the commit and remove the file but that fails too.

Haha, it tries to read from standard in:

$ git init && printf '' >- && git add -- - && git commit -m "lol"

Pressing ^D allows it to continue.