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Shrikshel
Shrikshel

Reputation: 37

Can I amend previous commit any number of times until it is pushed to remote?

So the scenario is, I committed some changes to local branch. After sometime I realized it should be amended, so did an amend. After some spec changes I am again in the need of an amend. So practically it will only be a single commit when I'll push it to remote or what? All I need is a cleaner history.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 245

Answers (1)

Dherik
Dherik

Reputation: 19110

Yes. And before pushing, you can do this unlimited times. As described on documentation:

[...] first make the changes you think you forgot, stage those changes, and the subsequent git commit --amend replaces that last commit with your new, improved commit.

Plus, you can also do a lot of local commits and use git squash (or just using soft reset) to create one single commit before pushing on repository:

It’s also possible to take a series of commits and squash them down into a single commit with the interactive rebasing tool.

[...] When you save that, you have a single commit that introduces the changes of all three previous commits.

Upvotes: 3

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