Editing the git commit message in GitHub

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PNS picture PNS · May 23, 2012 · Viewed 140.2k times · Source

Is there any way of online editing the commit message in GitHub.com, after submission?

From the command line, one can do

git commit --amend -m "New commit message"

as correctly suggested in another question.

Trying git pull and then git push has worked (without any other commit having interfered in the mean time).

But can it be done via the GitHub website?

Answer

Dan Green-Leipciger picture Dan Green-Leipciger · Jan 6, 2017

GitHub's instructions for doing this:

  1. On the command line, navigate to the repository that contains the commit you want to amend.
  2. Type git commit --amend and press Enter.
  3. In your text editor, edit the commit message and save the commit.
  4. Use the git push --force example-branch command to force push over the old commit.

Source: https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-commit-message/

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