Alias with multi-word git commit message not working

[sinrise]

As per the example in this closed issue, I created an alias: 'gcam=git commit -m $*' but it does not work. It returns the following error:

λ gcam test commit message using cmder alias
error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'message' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'using' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'cmder' did not match any file(s) known to git.
error: pathspec 'alias' did not match any file(s) known to git.

[sinrise]

Ok It does work if you add quotes around the message:
gcam "test commit message using cmder alias"
I'm not sure if you want to count this as even an issue if there is a way around having to do quotes. It's not much of a shortcut otherwise but it technically works.

[daxgames]

Unaliased git even requires quotes so this is not an issue.