SERVER-45313: Handle special characters in validate_commit_message

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/etc/evergreen.yml b/etc/evergreen.yml
index 6d4650258d1..0e717fb3966 100644
--- a/etc/evergreen.yml
+++ b/etc/evergreen.yml
@@ -8206,8 +8206,17 @@ tasks:
         set -o verbose
         set -o errexit
         if [ "${is_commit_queue}" = "true" ]; then
+          # Since `commit_message` is an evergreen expansion, we need a way to ensure we
+          # properly deal with any special characters that could cause issues (like "). To
+          # do this, we will write it out to a file, then read that file into a variable.
+          cat > commit_message.txt <<END_OF_COMMIT_MSG
+        ${commit_message}
+        END_OF_COMMIT_MSG
+
+          commit_message_content=$(cat commit_message.txt)
+
           ${activate_virtualenv}
-          $python buildscripts/validate_commit_message.py "${commit_message}"
+          $python buildscripts/validate_commit_message.py "$commit_message_content"
         fi