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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>
To: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...>
Cc: <git@...>
Subject: Re: Modify/edit old commit messages
Date: Thursday, February 1, 2007 - 8:28 am

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:


Short answer: you can't.

Slightly longer answer: since the object name is calculated from data 
including the commit message, there is no way you can change it.

However, you can start from a certain commit in history, and _recommit_ a 
commit. There, you can edit the message and rebase the other commits on 
top of it. NOTE: the resulting commit is _not_ easily mergeable for people 
who track your branch.

Hth,
Dscho

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Modify/edit old commit messages, Rodolfo Giometti, (Thu Feb 1, 7:49 am)
Re: Modify/edit old commit messages, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 1, 8:28 am)
Re: Modify/edit old commit messages, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Feb 1, 1:17 pm)
Re: Modify/edit old commit messages, Linus Torvalds, (Thu Feb 1, 12:41 pm)