Question

I try to commit and push in one command, typing something like:

gm "This is my commit message"

Which would run:

git commit -am "This is my commit message" && git push

I’ve tried this function in my .bashrc:

function gm() {
     git commit -am $1 && git push
}

Which works, except for the fact that I can not type several words as commit message. I can run

gm My_Message

and it works fine, but if I type several words, like

gm This is my message

It will only run git commit -am "This" && git push. I tried using quotation marks but it returns an error. How should I configure this function to work?

Answer 1

You need quotes around both the place calling the function and the git command.

function gm() {
     git commit -am "$1" && git push
}

gm "This is my message"

An alternative approach is:

function gm() {
     git commit -am "$*" && git push
}

gm This is my message

But this will mean that:

gm This commit  has double  spaced sections.\t And a tab, \
and a new line

(Where \t is actually a tab)
will give the commit message of:

This commit has double spaced sections. And a tab, and a new line

So all the white space is collapsed.

Also, if you want to enter a more complicated and complete commit message, you might want to you $EDITOR and omit -m entirely.

Also, you aren’t really using the power of distributed version control if you immediately push every commit.