33.13 Git Commit Message Edit
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You may find that you have some old commit messages that have been pushed to the repo that need changing. To do so, rebase your local repository with a collection of the previous commit messages, identify those that need to be reworded, edit the new commit messages and force a commit.
To rebase your local repository with the last 10 commits:
An editor will pop up with a line for each of the commit messages and
the commentary on what to do. For and IDE you will probably go to a
commit message line that you want to change and type r to reword
that message. Do this for each commit message to be updated.
After exiting from the editor a new editor will open for each commit message that was marked to be reworded. Edit the message and save and exit the editor.
Be sure to then commit any current changes. Then:
The updated commit messages should then appear in the remote repository.
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