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General Discussion Adding Changes to a Project on GitHub

Christopher Mlalazi
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Christopher Mlalazi
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Github Edit Commit Description

I hope my question is clear. I have just made committed an edit of my personal profile page on Github, but I wanted to change/edit the text describing it how do I do that I can’t see any eat button?

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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You'll need to use the "git commit --ammend" command and possibly force a push. GitHub has instructions on how to do this in there help pages here: https://help.github.com/articles/changing-a-commit-message/

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

From the command shell you would often set a message like this: git commit -m "Message here" to skip using the console text editor. To change the most recent message would be the command: git commit --amend -m "New message here" If you've pushed the change to GitHub from your local repo, you would then need to do the command: git push --force your-branch-name-here