Git commit locally not working, stalling and hanging to blinking cursor in bash

Question

All of a sudden this morning, I can't seem to commit to git. When I run:

git commit -m 'replacing location.origin with location.host as former isn't supported in ie8'

It never seems to execute, I'm left in my git bash with:

> _

Where the underscore blinks.

I was able to run a git status and git add fine, I just can't seem to commit, where I've never had this problem before. Anyone have any ideas what's going on and how I can fix this?

I've restarted my PC (I do this first thing every Monday am).

I also tried running a git gc.

Answer 1

You used a ' in your log message, which ends the string quotation.

Do not use -m, or escape the ' like '\\'' or put the whole thing in "…" instead or use typographic question marks ' inside the commit message instead of the ASCII apostrophe.