From: Kirill Likhodedov Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2016 15:09:35 GMT Subject: Re: git show doesn't work on file names with square brackets Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi Johannes, > On 06 Feb 2016, at 19:10 , Johannes Schindelin 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.