From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:24:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Edit log message after commit
Message-ID: <7vfyrn6k02.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87br2bq2ot.wl@mail2.atmark-techno.com>

Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@atmark-techno.com> writes:

> first, create new branch at where you wanna change the message
>
>     git checkout -b temp HEAD^^^   # hmm... HEAD^3 doesn't work

Because it should be spelled HEAD~3.  HEAD^3 is "the third
parent of HEAD" and usually does not exist, unless you are
talking about an Octopus merge of three or more branches.