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

Hi Johannes,

thanks for your answer, but unfortunately it doesn’t help.

On 06 Feb 2016, at 17:21 , Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] 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

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.

As I mentioned at the end of my original message, escaping doesn't help either. `git add` works fine both with and without escape. It was auto-completed by bash completion, and I just forgot to remove the backslashes before pasting the code here. At any case, escaping doesn’t work with `git show`.