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Subject: how to edit commit message in history
I made some typos in commit messages, how to edit them without affecting everything else?
Thanks in advance.
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盡寒食雨草萋萋 著麥苗風柳映堤 等是有家歸未得 杜鵑休向耳邊啼Re: how to edit commit message in history
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> wrote:
> I made some typos in commit messages, how to edit them without > affecting everything else? > > Thanks in advance.
say, it's commit HEAD~2 to be revised.
git rebase -i HEAD~3
In your editor, you all see something like this:
pick db79377 2nd pick fa9ced8 3rd pick b842e49 4nd
# Rebase 1423d77..b842e49 onto 1423d77 # # Commands: # p, pick = use commit # e, edit = use commit, but stop for amending # s, squash = use commit, but meld into previous commit # # If you remove a line here THAT COMMIT WILL BE LOST. # However, if you remove everything, the rebase will be aborted. #
Now change "pick" to "edit" with your typo commit, save it and exit. You will see something like this:
$ git-rebase -i HEAD~3 Stopped at db79377... 2nd You can amend the commit now, with
git commit --amend
Once you are satisfied with your changes, run
git rebase --continue
Just follow the instructions.
-- Thanks, Jike
Re: how to edit commit message in history
You can't, that would default the whole point of git's sha1 hashes!
If you change a commit, you will change the sha1 hash of that commit, and every subsequent commit. There is no way around it.
Quoting bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>:
> I made some typos in commit messages, how to edit them without > affecting everything else? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩311 無名氏 雜詩 > 盡寒食雨草萋萋 著麥苗風柳映堤 等是有家歸未得 杜鵑休向耳邊啼 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >
Jakub NarebskiRe: how to edit commit message in history
bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:
> I made some typos in commit messages, how to edit them without > affecting everything else?
If it is last commit that you want to edit, and if you didn't publish this commit to soem public repository, you can simply use
$ git commit --amend
If the commit is deeper in history, use "git rebase --interactive". If you published commit, you are out of luck.
See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips
-- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git