Git: Changing commit messages

To change the commit message of the latest (unpushed, unmerged) commit, you can use
git commit --amend

To change the commit message of an earlier (unpushed, unmerged) commit [COMMIT], you can do
git rebase -i COMMIT~

For a current version of git, you can simply mark the line with "reword", and git will ask you later for the new message.

For older versions:

• mark the line with edit
• save the file
• do a git commit --amend when rebasing stops at the relevant commit
• git rebase --continue