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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: git show doesn't work on file names with square brackets
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2016 18:10:55 +0100 (CET)
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Hi Kirill,

On Sun, 7 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote:

> > On 06 Feb 2016, at 19:10 , Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 	git show 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt' --
> > 
> 
> Nice catch! It works for me even without quotes.

Only by chance. Once you have a HEAD:brat.txt file in the current working
directory, it will break.

> Anyway, thanks a lot for finding the workaround.

I would not exactly call this a work-around, but a precise way to specify
that you are *not* talking about a file.

Ciao,
Johannes