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From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: skillzero@gmail.com
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fix commit message after push?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 22:19:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081227211944.GZ21154@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2729632a0812271313l74e9bb85l857a3ad3a3f0d8d8@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 01:13:46PM -0800, skillzero@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to fix a commit message after the commit has already
> pushed to someone else? I typed the wrong commit message then I pushed
> to the remote repository before realizing it. I tried git commit
> --amend to fix it in my local repository, but it rejects the
> subsequent push. I somewhat understand why it's rejecting it (my
> --amend rewrote history and now they are out-of-sync), but I was
> wondering if there is a general way to handle situations like this
> with git.

git push -f

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-c1dc263aca199d347f28872249e6c1f5d519a2df

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-27 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-27 21:13 Fix commit message after push? skillzero
2008-12-27 21:19 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]

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