How can I edit my previous commit messages in Smartgit?

Question

I recently noticed that i have committed two tickets with wrong ticket numbers and I have to correct them now. I am new to smartgit and hence don't know much about it.

Answer 1

In later versions of SmartGit version > 20.x you need to enable a preference to do this. The preference on the OS X version is at

Smartgit --> Preferences --> Commands --> Allow modifying pushing commits (e.g. forced push)

Answer 2

For the last commit, you can use Local|Edit Last Commit Message, for slightly older commits, make sure you are using at least version 8 and invoke Edit Commit Message in the Journal's context menu. Be careful when editing commit messages of already pushed commits.