Amend your commit

Publish date: Sep 23, 2022
Author: Nemanja

If you’re developer I’m pretty sure that by working with git every day it happened that you committed some changes and then you realized that you made a typo in the commit message, or you realized that you have to add one more line of code, and for that small change there is no reason to add completely new commit. This is where –amend option comes handy.

If you made a typo in commit message you don’t have to use git reset and then git commit to add a new message, you can use:

  
  git commit --amend -m '<commit-message>'

to change message of the last commit. Or if you have added a new change and you would like to include it in the last commit without changing commit message you can use:

  
  git commit --amend --no-edit

to add that change to the last commit.

But there is one thing that you have to keep in mind when using –amend. It will change SHA-1 hash of your last commit object and because of that you will have to do git push –force to push your latest changes.