Edit Old Commit with Lazygit

Published on 2021-09-12

I used to drop right to the shell whenever I needed to edit an old commit, be it a silly typo or a missing import I caught before pushing to a remote repository. Doing so with the git cli is not hard.

git log # look up the commit hash to be edited
git rebase --interactive 'abcdef^' # caret means its parent
# mark the commit as "edit" and apply changes
git commit --all --amend --no-edit
git rebase --continue

Using lazygit, the process is almost identical.

1. Navigate to the commit to be edited and press e (edit commit).
2. Stage changes and press A (Amend commit with staged changes).
3. Press m (view merge/rebase options) and select continue.