Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· ydbondt

Change last commit

Oh no ! I just committed, providing a wrong message.
No problemo, you can just edit the log of the last commit:

git commit --amend -m "A better description"

Oh no! I forgot that file.

git add file
git commit --amend -m "blah"

Oh no! I forgot that file... but the message's good.

git add file
git commit --amend -C HEAD

Oh no! I forgot to git add ....

vim file
git commit --amend -aC HEAD

Thanks passcod for the update ! ;)

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Additional scenarios:

"Oh no! I forgot that file."

git add file
git commit --amend -m "blah"

"Oh no! I forgot that file... but the message's good."

git add file
git commit --amend -C HEAD

"Oh no! I forgot one last edit before committing everything."

$EDITOR file
git commit --amend -aC HEAD

I use that last one a lot.

over 1 year ago ·

Thanks ! Very usefull.
I updated the protip ;)

over 1 year ago ·