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How do I enter an exclamation point into a git commit message from the command line?

I’m new to git, and I did this command:

git commit -m "First Commit!"

This throws an error like this:

bash: !": event not found

Why is this error happening? Is is that in Git, I shouldn’t use ! symbols in commit?

Are there other symbols which I shouldn’t use or should escape with any escape sequence?

Answer 1

Nothing to do with git, more to do with bash – escape the ! or use single quotes, i.e.

$ git commit -m "First Commit\!"

or, better:

$ git commit -m 'First Commit!'