Use of apostrophe (single-quote) in a Git commit message via command line [duplicate]
I am trying to take this one step further. How could this work in a standard Bash shell?
git commit -m 'cracked enigma's code'
Could this simply be done with backslash-escaping like the following?
git commit -m 'cracked enigma\'s code'
Further, how could double-quotes be used? Also by backslash-escaping? Would that be the best way? Are there any good alternative ways?
git commit -m 'cracked the "real" enigma's code'
Use double quotes:
git commit -m "cracked enigma's code"
Or, if your message contains other special characters, use double quotes or backslash only for the single quote:
git commit -m 'cracked $enigma'"'"'s code'
git commit -m 'cracked $enigma'\''s code'
There is no need to escape the '
character if your commit is double quoted.
git commit -m "cracked enigma's code"
EDIT: Anyway, when you have some special characters to add in the commit message I prefer to edit in a editor (like nano or vim), commiting without the -m
option.
git commit
And then put the message and exit. It's more confortable instead of thinking how you have to escape all those quotes and double quotes.