I was reviewing my git log and saw a commit message that didn't make sense.

It said: Updated all to use -> instead. (note the double space in all__to)

When I ran history in my bash session, it shows:

641 git commit -m "Updated all $microsoftReference to use $this->$allMicrosoftIDs instead."

So, either Git or Bash is interpretting the $ and

The app is PHP 8.1.0, so $microsoftReference is a variable and $this refers to a $classObject->property.

FWIW, I'm using Git Bash on Windoze 10.

CodePudding user response：

Answer: it was Bash interpreting the $ but they did not translate to anything showing output so they showed as blanks in the final message.