From: "David Burström" <davidburstrom@spotify.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Bug or unexpected behaviour in git show <rev>:a\b
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:45:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA-mk2_jB2X1J-NCXQ92spa-fmEct9G9f1iQo7t8=rvD5coFDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Hi!
As part of some experiments on running git on Windows, I found
something unexpected. If I use e.g. bash to run the following in a
repository:
git show HEAD:a\\b
the command stalls for a short while and then exits with 0 and prints
nothing on stdout. I've verified this on git 2.25.0 and 2.21.0. I
would have expected either "fatal: Path 'a\b' does not exist in
'HEAD'" or something of that nature. Nothing in "man git revisions"
hint that backslash is treated specially. Is this a bug or is it an
undocumented feature?
Best regards,
David Burström
next reply other threads:[~2020-01-24 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-24 12:45 David Burström [this message]
2020-01-24 19:01 ` Bug or unexpected behaviour in git show <rev>:a\b Jeff King
2020-01-24 19:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-25 0:00 ` Jeff King
2020-01-25 13:21 ` David Burström
2020-01-27 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-25 0:05 ` Jeff King
2020-01-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] t1400: avoid "test" string comparisons Jeff King
2020-01-25 0:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] t1506: drop space after redirection operator Jeff King
2020-01-25 0:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] sha1-name: mark get_oid() error messages for translation Jeff King
2020-01-29 21:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-29 21:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-30 7:17 ` Jeff King
2020-01-30 19:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-01-31 0:15 ` Jeff King
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