Send string with whitespaces as git commit message using bash

Question

I'm creating a bash script that updates a git branch, everything works fine but now i want to add the option to specify the commit message as a parameter.

I used this command first:

echo "Executing git commit..."
git commit -m "$1"

but when i sent something like this:

$ git.sh "testing commit message"

I get a bunch of errors telling me the command cannot be recognized by git.

I suppose in this case that the double quotes I added are not passing the parameter as a single string but as many, so only the first one is taken by the -m option and git tries to pass the others as commit options.

Is there a better way i can pass a multi word string as git commit message when getting it from the script arguments?

I would really appreciate any suggestion you have.

Answer 1

The quotes are removed when the command is evaluated by the shell.

Use something like

git commit -m "'$1'"

Answer 2

这对我有用：

git commit -m "$(echo $@)"