How to do git clone in bash script if repository path contains spaces?

Question

bash

like this - everything works

git clone '/f/Folder name with spaces/' $1 && echo "ok"

like this - it gives an error fatal: Too many arguments.

gitFolder="/f/Folder name with spaces/";
git clone $gitFolder $1 && echo "ok"

What is the reason? How can this be fixed?

Answer 1

Read about quoting and escaping and
correctly add quotes to the gitFolder variable.

Answer 2

Wangyu, that's like this:

gitFolder="\"/f/Folder name with spaces/\"";
git clone $gitFolder $1 && echo "ok"

will work

Answer 3

gitFolder="/f/Folder name with spaces/";
git clone "$gitFolder" $1 && echo "ok"