From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
Cc: "Ondřej Pohořelský" <opohorel@redhat.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bash: unescaped `>` character when switching branches
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 09:38:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq5xgjwzbx.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8515698b-4ab7-4901-bacb-1c47180c2530@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:53:56 +0200")
"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com> writes:
> 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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-25 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-24 12:59 bash: unescaped `>` character when switching branches Ondrej Pohorelsky
2025-06-25 8:53 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-06-25 13:57 ` Phillip Wood
2025-06-25 20:19 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-06-25 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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