From: Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:11:34 GMT
Subject: Re: git show doesn't work on file names with square brackets
Message-ID: <32B9BD70-F06C-49C4-B672-24173E69B99F@jetbrains.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8ChZzYWXePSwF6D8vPZMuz3dQe1=jtw6rSG7M1oC+RiNw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Duy,

> It's from 28fcc0b (pathspec: avoid the need of "--" when wildcard is
> used - 2015-05-02)

v2.5.0 is the first release which contains 28fcc0b.
I can confirm that older versions of Git work correctly without “--“:

# /opt/local/bin/git version
git version 1.7.1.1
# /opt/local/bin/git show HEAD:bra[ckets].txt 
asd

Looks like a regression?