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

From
Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2016, 13:16 UTC
Message-ID
<6A7D4447-AC25-4591-9DA7-CD153198EC64@jetbrains.com>
I’ve faced a problem that `git show <rev>:<filename>` returns an error when <filename> contains square brackets.
Interestingly, the problem is reproducible on "GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)", but not on "zsh 5.0.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)”. The problem is also reproducible when called from a Java program by forking a process with given parameters.
Is it a bug or I just didn’t find the proper way to escape the brackets? 
Steps to reproduce:
    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

Error: fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt': both revision and filename Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this: 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]’

Neither escaping, not quoting doesn’t help:
    git show HEAD:bra\[ckets\].txt
returns the same error
    git show "HEAD:bra\[ckets\].txt”
returns empty output

Thanks a lot! -- Kirill

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