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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 7, 2016, 17:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1602071809440.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CABCFD40-C1B8-412C-90E3-24147AA6AFA5@jetbrains.com>

Hi Kirill,

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:

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> > 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.

Only by chance. Once you have a HEAD:brat.txt file in the current working directory, it will break.

> Anyway, thanks a lot for finding the workaround.

I would not exactly call this a work-around, but a precise way to specify that you are *not* talking about a file.

Ciao, Johannes