Jerry has already committed the changes and he wants to correct his last commit. In this case, git amend operation will help. The amend operation changes the last commit including your commit message; it creates a new commit ID.

Before amend operation, he checks the commit log.

[jerry@CentOS project]$ git log

The above command will produce the following result.

commit cbe1249b140dad24b2c35b15cc7e26a6f02d2277
Author: Jerry Mouse <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Sep 11 08:05:26 2013 +0530

Implemented my_strlen function


commit 19ae20683fc460db7d127cf201a1429523b0e319
Author: Tom Cat <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Sep 11 07:32:56 2013 +0530

Initial commit

Jerry commits the new changes with — amend operation and views the commit log.

[jerry@CentOS project]$ git status -s
M string.c
?? string

[jerry@CentOS project]$ git add string.c

[jerry@CentOS project]$ git status -s
M string.c
?? string

[jerry@CentOS project]$ git commit --amend -m ''Changed return type of my_strlen to size_t''
[master d1e19d3] Changed return type of my_strlen to size_t
1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 string.c

Now, git log will show new commit message with new commit ID −

[jerry@CentOS project]$ git log

The above command will produce the following result.

commit d1e19d316224cddc437e3ed34ec3c931ad803958
Author: Jerry Mouse <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Sep 11 08:05:26 2013 +0530

Changed return type of my_strlen to size_t


commit 19ae20683fc460db7d127cf201a1429523b0e319
Author: Tom Cat <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Sep 11 07:32:56 2013 +0530

Initial commit