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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 6, 2016, 16:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602061708220.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <25D155FA-6F05-425C-AB2D-7F0B44E0D1C5@jetbrains.com>

Hi Kirill,

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:

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> > 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.

Ciao, Johannes