Git commit bash script

Question

I'm writing a bash script to add, commit, push all files in a directory.

#!/bin/bash   git add .   read -p "Commit description: " desc   git commit -m $desc   git push origin master 

I'm getting the following error:

$ ./togithub   Commit description:    test commit script   error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git.   error: pathspec 'script"' did not match any file(s) known to git.   Everything up-to-date 

I'm not sure if this is a problem with reading in the text (it echos fine) or passing it to git commit -m.

Answer 1

You have to do:

git commit -m "$desc" 

In the current script, test is going as commit message and commit and script are being treated as next arguments.

Answer 2

Here's a merge of the last two answers - chaining together the add -u is awesome, but the embedded read command was causing me troubles. I went with (last line used for my heroku push, change to 'git push origin head' if that's your method):

#!/bin/bash read -p "Commit description: " desc git add . && \ git add -u && \ git commit -m "$desc" && \ git push heroku master