Editing the git commit message in GitHub

问题:

Is there any way of online editing the commit message in GitHub.com, after submission?

From the command line, one can do

git commit --amend -m "New commit message"

as correctly suggested in another question.

Trying git pull and then git push has worked (without any other commit having interfered in the mean time).

But can it be done via the GitHub website?

回答1:

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, he would have to rebase his work onto your new commit.

回答2:

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/

回答3:

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

回答4:

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.

回答5:

I was facing the same problem.

See in your github for a particular branch and you will come to know the commit id of the very first commit in that branch. do a rebase to that:

git rebase -i

editor will open up. Do a track of your commits from github UI and opened editor and change the messages.