Hi Kirill, On Sat, 6 Feb 2016, Kirill Likhodedov wrote: > > On 06 Feb 2016, at 17:21 , Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> 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 Whoops. Sorry. I actually ran those commands now and it is true that it still does not work, which is funny. Especially since git show 'HEAD:bra[ckets].txt' -- actually *does* work. Ciao, Johannes