Re: bug "$message" literal in commit message

From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Jun 3, 2015, 18:19 UTC
Message-ID: <vpqiob47izi.fsf@anie.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <CAF-5DQ+WGhHq0OZZh+90iuD1qrffcYyuprzW9m7XC6NGXPZzSQ@mail.gmail.com>

Yauheni Zablotski <e.zablotski@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hello,
>
> I think I found a bug(or strange behavior) in the git.
> If commit message contains literal "$message" than that literal
> disappears from commit message.
>
> For example:
> -------------
> user@comp ~/cc $ git commit -am "1$message1"

Not a Git issue, but a user-error that Git cannot recover.

Your shell is doing the variable expansion before calling git, and $message1 is considered as a shell variable here. Git does not know that you used $message1.

Solution:

git commit -am '1$message1'

or

git commit -am "1\$message1"

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Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/