Amend last commit message?

[Liam Jones]

I messed up a commit message and and noticed before I pushed my local repo changes out so I wanted to edit the message. I couldn't find anywhere obvious to do this within SourceTree.

I just did it via the git command in the end (git commit --amend -m "correct message").

Did I miss the ability to do this in the SourceTree interface or is it simply not there?

[stevestreeting · Accepted solution]

It's there, at the bottom left of the commit window, 'Amend latest commit' checkbox).

[Liam Jones]

Ah! Thanks Steve. :) Stupidly, I didn't think of looking in the commit window - I was looking for something off of the newest log item's right click menu.

[Stanley Kurdziel]

In version 2.0.5.2 on Mac, the option is now at the top right of the commit section. "Amend last commit" is the first option in the "Commit options..." dropdown.

[Tommy Kye]

Cool!

[reybruno]

Thanks! 

[Marie Toulouse]

still no graphic update for this feature on windows !!

[Bill OLeary]

Thanks for this...

I have to keep coming back to this answer because the location of that option  is not really intuitive to me... 

I think it would better to have this option in the context sensitive menu which gets launched when right-clicking the  selected check-in in the history view.

[shulif]

I totally am unable to follow the "Ammend latest commit" flow.

I agree with Bill OLeory.

[dheerajsvim11]

Yes It worked for me in Mac

Select Commit -> It will open commit window -> Center Right -> Commit options -> Amend last commit 

Thanks Steve

[BertjeBertje]

I got it working after a couple of tries, but this is rubbish. I even had to find out again, while reading my own description, which I improved.

• One can't directly work on the commit itself with some button or option. One has to make a sort of ghost commit.
• Possibly with some uncommitted files, one has to push 'Commit'. That was too scary to try, so I undid changes first.
• So wit NO uncommitted files I had to push 'Commit' (top left)! Then find that option. Then get a popup in bad English: "Do you want to replace the commit text above with the message from the previous commit?" No, the other way around! And it is not 'above'.
• And for some reason I had to try a couple of times because it did not work, the second 'Çommit' button was not enabled, or whatever. But probably I was misled by the popup which suggests it finalizes the action.
• I just found out why. It isn't. One has to push commit options first, which changes a possibly entered text back. Then enter the new text. Then commit.
• So again: this is rubbish. Please Atlassian, change this to something intuitive.