Note how `git log` discards the ending quote character: ``` root@NBR1710R:~# git init repo Initialized empty Git repository in /root/repo/.git/ root@NBR1710R:~# cd repo/ root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git config user.name Les Actualite\' root@NBR1710R:~/repo# cat .git/config [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [user] name = Les root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git config user.name "Les Actualite\'" root@NBR1710R:~/repo# cat .git/config [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [user] name = Les Actualite\\' root@NBR1710R:~/repo# touch foo root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git add foo root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git commit -m 'first' [master (root-commit) a78e11f] first Committer: Les Actualite <root@NBR1710R> Your name and email address were configured automatically based on your username and hostname. Please check that they are accurate. You can suppress this message by setting them explicitly. Run the following command and follow the instructions in your editor to edit your configuration file: git config --global --edit After doing this, you may fix the identity used for this commit with: git commit --amend --reset-author 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode 100644 foo root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git log commit a78e11ff0707bd4f1bea195735a7fc8b7ee2b9f8 (HEAD -> master) Author: Les Actualite <root@NBR1710R> Date: Thu Aug 22 14:25:11 2019 +0200 first ``` I can't test with the development tree right now, ``` root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git --version git version 2.17.1 ```