Splitting a Git commit into one commit per file

git_commit_by_file.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Pretty much script from
# https://hisham.hm/2019/02/12/splitting-a-git-commit-into-one-commit-per-file/
# but modified to work with files that have spaces in their names

message="$(git log --pretty=format:'%s' -n1)"

git status --porcelain --untracked-files=no | while read status file
do
	printf "\n"
	echo "${status} ${file}"
	filenm="$(echo "$file" | tr -d '"')" # strip " and add '

	if [ "$status" = "M" ]
  	then
    	git add "${filenm}"
    	git commit -n "${filenm}" -m "update of $file: $message"
	elif [ "$status" = "A" ]
	then
		echo " -> File added. Not doing anything right now."
	 	# git add "${filenm}"
		# git commit -n "${filenm}" -m "added $file: $message"
	elif [ "$status" = "D" ]
	then
		echo " -> File removed. Not doing anything right now."
		# git rm "${filenm}"
		# git commit -n "${filenm}" -m "removed $file: $message"
	else
    	echo " -> WARNING: unknown status $file"
   	fi
done