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

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 `>`.

It would be nice to have an opt-in extension to the ref format check
which disallows `>`.