On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 5:32 AM Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Note how `git log` discards the ending quote character: <snip> > root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git add foo > root@NBR1710R:~/repo# git commit -m 'first' > [master (root-commit) a78e11f] first > Committer: Les Actualite <root@NBR1710R> If you look closely here, in the "git commit" output, you can see that, as Pratyush indicated, it was actually "git commit" that dropped the trailing apostrophe, and "git log" is simply presenting the information as it exists in the repository. If your goal is an accented "e", wouldn't it be better to set your name using é, rather than a trailing apostrophe? "git commit" would likely preserve that without issue. Best regards, Bryan Turner
