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 `>`.
