How To Change Your Most Recent Git Commit Message

Last modified: 
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
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Git

If you made a mistake in your last git commit message and haven't pushed the changes yet, use --amend to correct and update the message.

git commit --amend -m "The corrected message goes here"


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