Course lesson
Change the Commit Message of a Previous Commit with Interactive Rebase
We'll go back into our history with
- Duration
- 3 min
- Access
- Free
- Transcript
- Retained from source evidence
We'll go back into our history with
git log --oneline
and then we can pick a previous commit and change its commit message with an interactive rebase. (Note: you shouldn't try to do this on commits that have already been pushed - only commits you still have locally)
To start the interactive rebase, we'll use:
git rebase -i HEAD~3
and then change pick to reword. Then we can reword the commit message and the commit will be rewritten for us.
git log --oneline
# start the interactive rebase
git rebase -i HEAD~3
# and then change pick to reword.
# We can now reword the commit message