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On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:51:44PM +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote:
> git-rebase is one of those tools I haven't been looking at so far (I'm
> still rather new to Git), so I should probably read through its
> manpage.

I was in your shoes but I recently learned rebase. If you want to edit a 
commit then find the SHA-1 in git log. Then assuming you are on master:

1. git checkout -b tmp SHA-1
2. git commit --amend
3. git checkout master
4. git rebase --onto tmp SHA-1

Both times, use the same SHA-1.