Editing the git commit message in GitHub

Question

GitHub's instructions for doing this:

1. On the command line, navigate to the repository that contains the commit you want to amend.
2. Type git commit --amend and press Enter.
3. In your text editor, edit the commit message and save the commit.
4. Use the git push --force example-branch command to force push over the old commit.

Source: https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-commit-message/

No, this is not directly possible. The hash for every Git commit is also calculated based on the commit message. When you change the commit message, you change the commit hash. If you want to push that commit, you have to force that push (git push -f). But if already someone pulled your old commit and started a work based on that commit, they would have to rebase their work onto your new commit.

You need to git push -f assuming that nobody has pulled the other commit before. Beware, you're changing history.

For intellij users: If you want to make changes in interactive way for past commits, which are not pushed follow below steps in Intellij:

• Select Version Control
• Select Log
• Right click the commit for which you want to amend comment
• Click reword
• Done

Hope it helps

No, because the commit message is related with the commit SHA / hash, and if we change it the commit SHA is also changed. The way I used is to create a comment on that commit. I can't think the other way.

For Android Studio / intellij users:

• Select Version Control
• Select Log
• Right click the commit for which you want to rename
• Click Edit Commit Message
• Write your commit message
• Done