I’ve faced a problem that `git show <rev>:<filename>` returns an error when
<filename> contains square brackets.
Interestingly, the problem is reproducible on "GNU bash, version
3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin15)", but not on "zsh 5.0.7
(x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)”. The problem is also reproducible when called from a
Java program by forking a process with given parameters.
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
Error:
fatal: ambiguous argument 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt': both revision and filename
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]’
Neither escaping, not quoting doesn’t help:
git show HEAD:bra\[ckets\].txt
returns the same error
git show "HEAD:bra\[ckets\].txt”
returns empty output
Thanks a lot!
-- Kirill--
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