Is there a way to reword a git commit message from command line? Something like
git commit --amend --message="New message"
Similar as we can change author name via git commit --amend --author="New Author Name <email@address.com>"
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Vadim Kotov
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1Have you tried your own advice? `git commit --amend --message="New message"` works for me. – phd Jan 29 '19 at 15:46
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@phd How did you make it work? It does not work in my case. – sandalone Jan 30 '19 at 09:50
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1I just ran `git commit --amend -m xxx` and verified the change with `git show`. No magic. – phd Jan 30 '19 at 11:06
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`-m` did the trick, as `--message` does not exist. – sandalone Jan 30 '19 at 13:27
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It exists in the [latest docs](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-commit#git-commit--mltmsggt) and in my man page; `--message=xxx` works for me. I have git version 2.11. Is your git older? – phd Jan 30 '19 at 15:01
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`git --version git version 2.17.1 ` – sandalone Jan 31 '19 at 12:06
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it's probably the syntax. thanks – sandalone Jan 31 '19 at 12:06