Re: bug "$message" literal in commit message

Yauheni Zablotski [off-list ref] 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:
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user@comp ~/cc $ git commit -am "1$message1"
[master (root-commit) d36a841] 1
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 1

user@comp ~/cc $ git log
commit d36a841ae25510ada80246a78225446083fcb3e1
Author: user [off-list ref]
Date:   Wed Jun 3 18:21:45 2015 +0200

    file
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Sorry for having disturbed you

Learn shell ;-)

Instead of "git commit -am", try "echo" and repeat your exercise,
and you would see:

	$ echo "1$message1"
        1

If you prepare a shell variable message1 beforehand, e.g.

	$ message1='This is the contents of message1 variable'
        $ echo "1$message1"
        1This is the contents of message1 variable

Your shell interpolates the value of message1 variable if you write
"$message1" on your command line, way before individual commands
(e.g. echo and git above) that receive the string as its parameter
sees them.

Contrast the above with this invocation after understanding the
above.

	$ git commit -a -m '1$message1'
	$ git log