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Subject: Bug or unexpected behaviour in git show <rev>:a\b
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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 Burstr=C3=B6m