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Re: bash: unescaped `>` character when switching branches

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 25, 2025, 16:38 UTC
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"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
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> On Tue, Jun 24, 2025, at 14:59, Ondrej Pohorelsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Our customer has found a possible issue when switching branches.
>> Output redirection character `>` is not escaped properly when
>> switching/checking out to different branch.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>> 1. Create a new branch and switch back to master
>> ```
>> $ git switch -C 'issue#1234>/tmp/dangerfile'
>> Switched to a new branch 'issue#1234>/tmp/dangerfile'
>> $ git switch master
>> ```
>
> It’s too bad that git-check-ref-format(1) does not disallow `>`.

Is it? It looks like an outright bug in the completion code, nothing more, to me.

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  1. Ondrej PohorelskyJun 24, 2025
  2. Kristoffer HaugsbakkJun 25, 2025
  3. Phillip WoodJun 25, 2025
  4. Kristoffer HaugsbakkJun 25, 2025
  5. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2025

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