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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 6, 2016, 14:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061518220.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <6A7D4447-AC25-4591-9DA7-CD153198EC64@jetbrains.com>

Hi Kirill,

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:

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> 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

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'

You could also escape the brackets with a backslash, as you did, but you would have to do it *every* time you write the path, not just in the `git add` incantation.

Ciao, Johannes