Editing the git commit message in GitHub

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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GitHub s instructions for doing this    On the command line  navigate to the repository that contains the commit you want to amend  Type git commit --amend and press Enter  In your text editor  edit the commit message and save the commit  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

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