From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
To: Yauheni Zablotski <e.zablotski@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug "$message" literal in commit message
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 20:19:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqiob47izi.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF-5DQ+WGhHq0OZZh+90iuD1qrffcYyuprzW9m7XC6NGXPZzSQ@mail.gmail.com> (Yauheni Zablotski's message of "Wed, 3 Jun 2015 18:51:10 +0200")
Yauheni Zablotski <e.zablotski@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I think I found a bug(or strange behavior) in the git.
> If commit message contains literal "$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"
--
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-03 18:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-03 16:51 bug "$message" literal in commit message Yauheni Zablotski
2015-06-03 18:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-03 18:19 ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
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