From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com>
To: "Ondřej Pohořelský" <opohorel@redhat.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bash: unescaped `>` character when switching branches
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:53:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8515698b-4ab7-4901-bacb-1c47180c2530@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+B51BHEB24JNzOroTxFodxiuPJ1=Vj7KRFevrm2YatnTVuoYA@mail.gmail.com>
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 `>`.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-25 8:54 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 [this message]
2025-06-25 13:57 ` Phillip Wood
2025-06-25 20:19 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-06-25 16:38 ` Junio C Hamano
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