On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > Heya, > > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 07:31, Eric Raymond <esr@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Now, about step 3. The official git command set only directly supports > > amending the tip commit. There is a semi-documented procedure for > > amending previous commits using an interactive rebase, but trying to > > understand it makes my brain hurt. Don't want to go there. > > Go there anyway. These days it's as simple as changing "pick" to > "reword" on the appropriate commit. Really, give it a try. While the 'git rebase -i' solution has its place (and I do use it myself), it essentially deals with only one branch while having a filter-branch based solution allows for such changes to be applied globally i.e. to all branches in the presence of history fork points. Nicolas