How to amend older Git commit?

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michael picture michael · Jan 11, 2012 · Viewed 116.8k times · Source

I have made 3 git commits, but have not been pushed. How can I amend the older one (ddc6859af44) and (47175e84c) which is not the most recent one?

$git log
commit f4074f289b8a49250b15a4f25ca4b46017454781
Date:   Tue Jan 10 10:57:27 2012 -0800

commit ddc6859af448b8fd2e86dd0437c47b6014380a7f
Date:   Mon Jan 9 16:29:30 2012 -0800

commit 47175e84c2cb7e47520f7dde824718eae3624550
Date:   Mon Jan 9 13:13:22 2012 -0800

Answer

Adam Dymitruk picture Adam Dymitruk · Jan 11, 2012 
git rebase -i HEAD^^^

Now mark the ones you want to amend with edit or e (replace pick). Now save and exit.

Now make your changes, then

git add .
git rebase --continue

If you want to add an extra delete remove the options from the commit command. If you want to adjust the message, omit just the --no-edit option.

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