Modifying a specific commit in Git
This article explains how we can modify a specific commit in Git. We may need to rename, compress, edit, or add files to a commit.
The best way is to use the git rebase command in interactive mode . What do you think of this?
Modifying a specific commit in Git
To modify a commit, you must run in interactive mode git rebase. Let's demonstrate this with an example.
We will run the command below to run in interactive mode git rebase.
$ git rebase -i HEAD~10
As we have seen, there are several commands we can use to modify commits.
Let's take a quick look at the options.
To modify a commit, we would replace pick with any of the options above . Let’s try renaming one of our commits.
We will rewrite the commit message of my 8c1cefc commit and squash the three code corrections.
Once our edits are complete, we can exit the text editor to complete the rebase. Git will open the text editor again to allow you to provide a new message for our commit.
Git will also open the editor again, allowing us to send a commit message to the squashed commit.
At this point, you may encounter merge conflicts. You will have to manually resolve the conflicts and commit your changes.
To commit the changes, we will run with the --amendgit commit flag as shown below.
$ git commit --amend --all --no-edit
The final step is to complete the rebase using the following command.
$ git rebase --continue
This will complete the rebase and amend the selected commit.
In short, we can modify commits in Git by running rebase in interactive mode . There are several commands available in interactive mode to modify commits.
When committing your changes, use the --amend flag.
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