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

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2016, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ChZzYWXePSwF6D8vPZMuz3dQe1=jtw6rSG7M1oC+RiNw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061708220.2964@virtualbox>

On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi Kirill,
>
> On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:
>
>> > 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
>
> Whoops. Sorry. I actually ran those commands now and it is true that it
> still does not work, which is funny. Especially since
>
>         git show 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt' --
>
> actually *does* work.

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

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Duy