How to amend the last Git commit?

To amend the last Git commit, you can follow these steps:

  1. Make the necessary changes to your files in your working directory.

  2. Stage the changes for commit by using the following command:

    git add .

    This command stages all changes in the current directory for the next commit.

  3. Amend the commit using the --amend option with the commit command:

    git commit --amend
  4. This will open a text editor with the commit message of your previous commit. Edit the commit message if needed, and save the changes.

NOTE: If you only want to update the commit message without making any changes to the files, you can skip steps 1 and 2 and directly use the --amend option with the commit command.

  1. After saving the changes, you have successfully amended the last Git commit. However, please note that amending a commit actually replaces the previous commit with a new commit, which has a different commit ID. So if you have already pushed the original commit to a remote repository, it is not advised to amend the commit, as it will create inconsistencies in the Git history.