From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: changing first commit message Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:08:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Shantanu Pavgi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 07 18:08:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qer7u-0002ZG-2d for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:08:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752210Ab1GGQIS (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:08:18 -0400 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:45909 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750830Ab1GGQIR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:08:17 -0400 Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 823CE1C01DDC; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:08:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.8.164]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603451C00048; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:08:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.180]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.8.164]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dpacLccTtFhD; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:08:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from igel.home (ppp-88-217-111-131.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.111.131]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:08:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 501) id 002DFCA29C; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 18:08:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Who wants some OYSTERS with SEN-SEN an' COOL WHIP? In-Reply-To: (Shantanu Pavgi's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:56:57 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Shantanu Pavgi writes: > How do I reword the first commit message? I was able to reword commit > messages after the first commit using 'git rebase -i ', > but I am not sure how to reword the first commit message itself. Any help? $ git rebase -h [...] --root rebase all reachable commits up to the root(s) [...] Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."