Re: git show doesn't work on file names with square brackets

From: Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2016, 14:29 UTC
Message-ID: <25D155FA-6F05-425C-AB2D-7F0B44E0D1C5@jetbrains.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061518220.2964@virtualbox>

Hi Johannes,

thanks for your answer, but unfortunately it doesn’t help.

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> On 06 Feb 2016, at 17:21 , Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> This is expected behavior of the Bash you are using. The commands that I
> think would reflect your intentions would be:
> 
> 	git init brackets
> 	cd brackets
> 	echo 'asd' > 'bra[ckets].txt'
> 	git add 'bra[ckets].txt'
> 	git commit -m initial
> 	git show 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt’

Nope. This command sequence doesn’t work for me: the same error is returned:

    # git show 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt'
    fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt': both revision and filename

> You could also escape the brackets with a backslash, as you did, but you
> would have to do it *every* time you write the path, not just in the `git
> add` incantation.

As I mentioned at the end of my original message, escaping doesn't help either. `git add` works fine both with and without escape. It was auto-completed by bash completion, and I just forgot to remove the backslashes before pasting the code here. At any case, escaping doesn’t work with `git show`.