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Amending the most recent commit message<\/h1>\n
git commit --amend\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
will open your editor, allowing you to change the commit message of the most recent commit. Additionally, you can set the commit message directly in the command line with:<\/p>\n
git commit --amend -m \"New commit message\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
\u2026however, this can make multi-line commit messages or small corrections more cumbersome to enter.<\/p>\n
Make sure you don’t have any working copy changes staged<\/em> before doing this or they will get committed too. (Unstaged<\/em> changes will not get committed.)<\/p>\n
Changing the message of a commit that you’ve already pushed to your remote branch<\/h2>\n
If you’ve already pushed your commit up to your remote branch, then – after amending your commit locally (as described above) – you’ll also need to force push the commit with:<\/p>\n
git push <remote> <branch> --force\n# Or\ngit push <remote> <branch> -f\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Warning: force-pushing will overwrite the remote branch with the state of your local one<\/strong>. If there are commits on the remote branch that you don’t have in your local branch, you will<\/em> lose those commits.<\/p>\n
Warning: be cautious about amending commits that you have already shared with other people.<\/strong> Amending commits essentially rewrites<\/em> them to have different SHA<\/a> IDs, which poses a problem if other people have copies of the old commit that you’ve rewritten. Anyone who has a copy of the old commit will need to synchronize their work with your newly re-written commit, which can sometimes be difficult, so make sure you coordinate with others when attempting to rewrite shared commit history, or just avoid rewriting shared commits altogether.<\/p>\n
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Perform an interactive rebase<\/h3>\n
Another option is to use interactive rebase.
\nThis allows you to edit any message you want to update even if it’s not the latest message.<\/p>\n
In order to do a Git squash, follow these steps:<\/p>\n
\/\/ n is the number of commits up to the last commit you want to be able to edit\ngit rebase -i HEAD~n\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Once you squash your commits – choose the e\/r<\/code> for editing the message:<\/p>\n
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Important note about interactive rebase<\/h3>\n
When you use git rebase -i HEAD~n<\/code> there can be more<\/strong> than n commits. Git will “collect” all the commits in the last n commits, and if there was a merge somewhere in between that range you will see all the commits as well, so the outcome will be n + .<\/p>\n
Good tip:<\/h3>\n
If you have to do it for more than a single branch and you might face conflicts when amending the content, set up git rerere<\/code> and let Git resolve those conflicts automatically for you.<\/p>\n
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Documentation<\/h2>\n