I am trying to commit changes with the command git commit "commit message" to a local branch, but am getting the following message:
error: pathspec 'commit message' did not match any file(s) known to git. 
3 Answers
It's git commit -m "commit message". You're missing the -m flag.
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Wok
Thanks. I have been looking for this solution on the whole Internet because I was doing
git commit --amend 'commit message' instead of git commit --amend -m 'commit message'. I had found solutions involving double quotes, but which were totally unrelated to my problem.If you're using Windows you need to use double quotes
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Yauhen
Thank you, it took some time to recognize the qoutes-issue after background in Linux.
Very Good point using double quotes on windows. It cost me hours trying to figure out why the single quote didn't work. Thank you! One thing I want to mention here from my own experience is it seems you still have to do 'git commit -a' for some reason to be able later on to push to the remote git repo such as 'git push'. and it's almost no point doing just 'git commit -m "commit message..."' coz you will type it up in a vi editor again anyway when you do 'git commit -a' on windows. I think only on windows you need to do 'git commit -a' instead of just 'git commmit -m "msg"'
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