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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: how to edit commit message in history
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 03:18:37 -0800 (PST)
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bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:

> I made some typos in commit messages, how to edit them without
> affecting everything else?

If it is last commit that you want to edit, and if you didn't publish
this commit to soem public repository, you can simply use

  $ git commit --amend

If the commit is deeper in history, use "git rebase --interactive".
If you published commit, you are out of luck.

See http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitTips
-- 
Jakub Narebski
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