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

From: Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2016, 15:09 UTC
Message-ID: <CABCFD40-C1B8-412C-90E3-24147AA6AFA5@jetbrains.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061708220.2964@virtualbox>

Hi Johannes,

> On 06 Feb 2016, at 19:10 , Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> 	git show 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt' --
>

Nice catch! It works for me even without quotes. Although this “--“ is mentioned in the error message, I didn’t even try since its meaning is totally unrelated with the problem ;) Anyway, thanks a lot for finding the workaround.

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