How to edit a commit message in PyCharm?

Question

In git there is a command git commit --amend to edit your last commit message. I was looking for this type of functionality in pycharm and can\'t seem to find it. I

Answer 1

There's no need to revert. You can just click on the commit you want to edit, and then press Shift+F6. The edit window will pop up for you.

Answer 2

Rather than using VCS "Commit Changes ..." and amending, I found it more intuitive to show the Git Log, and from the context menu on the previous commit, do a "Reset Current Branch to Here". In the popup, select "Soft" reset, which doesn't change files and does stage changes for commit.

That seems more like how an undo should work, putting the project back in the state it was before I mistakenly issued the commit with the wrong message.

Answer 3

If you haven't pushed the commit, you can reword the commit message pretty easily. Go to the Version Control tab (Alt-9 Win/Linux, Cmd-9 macOS) and click the Log tab in its window.

You'll see a list of commits. In this case you want the first one. Either right-click on it and choose Reword or select it (it's probably already selected) and hit F2 to open the edit window. Edit your commit message, then click Ok.

Answer 4

I had the exact same issue and thought I should clarify and bring all the fore-mentioned knowledge that worked for me in one place:

From VCS select Commit Changes, then tick Amend commit", select a new change to be committed and add new commit message (to replace the one of the previous commit). Finally, select Commit.

Following LazyOne's comment, at https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.1/commit-changes-dialog.html it explains how the Amend commit" option works. Furthermore, as it was clearly noted by Liam Jones, you must not only tick the Amend commit" option but also select to commit some new change (any small change would suffice) in order for the Commit button at the bottom to become available.

When you do the above steps, then this new commit along with the changes of the previous commit will be merged using the latest commit message; in other words, this way you replace the commit message of your last commit.

Of course, the git commit --amend option (as described here https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Undoing-Things) is perhaps another (cleaner) way for someone who can work outside of an IDE.

Answer 5

You can also use rebase from pycharm, in interactive mode and apply "reword" to a commit, in which you want to edit the message.

Answer 6

The Amend commit option does not show up for me. Instead since we are using Pycharm anyway I just open up the terminal tab within Pycharm and just fire the command you have already mentioned in your question :D