Surviving with Git #5: Fixing the Last Commit

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In this episode, we will learn how to correct our very last commit - e.g. because we've mistyped the commit message or forgot to add a change.

Correcting your last commit is quite a common case. And as long as it's the very last commit, Git makes this very easy. After looking at our example case, we should definitely get that commit message fixed. In the commit interface, you can use the "amend" checkbox. This automatically prefills the message fields with the last message. So you can easily edit and change. Here we go: it now seems as if we'd never made that typo!

Of course, you can also add any changes that you might have forgotten. Simply add them to the staging area - and then again use the amend feature. And you'll see that index.html is now part of that commit - just as we intended to.

Using amend is incredibly easy and very practical. There's only one thing to remember: since it rewrites the commit history, you should use it only on commits that you haven't pushed to a remote repository, yet. Stick to this rule, and everything's fine.

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