# how to edit commit message in history 4 messages from 2009-01-16 to 2009-01-16. Participants: bill lam, Jike Song, thestar@fussycoder.id.au, Jakub Narebski. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17199 ## bill lam, 2009-01-16 03:57 Subject: how to edit commit message in history Message-ID: <20090116035714.GA6984@b2j> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090116035714.GA6984%40b2j ``` 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 ``` ## Jike Song, 2009-01-16 04:09 Subject: Re: how to edit commit message in history Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/df9815e70901152009i3bd717d0t6c20c41e9be19552%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20090116035714.GA6984@b2j> ``` On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:57 AM, bill lam 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 ``` ## thestar@fussycoder.id.au, 2009-01-16 04:31 Subject: Re: how to edit commit message in history Message-ID: <20090116153156.tfzar9idq8gwk0wg@webmail.fussycoder.id.au> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20090116153156.tfzar9idq8gwk0wg%40webmail.fussycoder.id.au In-Reply-To: <20090116035714.GA6984@b2j> ``` 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 : > 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 Narebski, 2009-01-16 11:18 Subject: Re: how to edit commit message in history Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/m34ozzzegn.fsf%40localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <20090116035714.GA6984@b2j> ``` bill lam 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 ```