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

Hi Kirill,

On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:

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