On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 21:54, Asaf Paris Mandoki<asa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I pushed it a few minutes ago. I doubt somebody has checked out the > changes yet. I'd rather just amend the commit comment. If I wanted to > force the push should I do > > git push --force gitori...@git.sugarlabs.org:physics/mainline.git > > Do you think it can break subsequent pulls? I Just want to amend the > commit comment.
IMO, as much as I hate having my mistakes recorded for posterity for everybody's amusement, git revert is a better option than amend. Regards, Tomeu > Thanks, > Asaf > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Ball<c...@laptop.org> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> Is there a way to fix the comment? >> >> > Sure. git-commit --amend, per >> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-commit.html >> >> That's only going to work for commits that haven't been pushed yet; >> once you've pushed something, GIT won't let you transparently rewrite >> it later without --force, and that's bad form on a shared repository. >> (Because it can break subsequent pulls for clients that already have >> a checkout.) >> >> I'd just make a new commit that corrects the comment, if you think >> that's justified. >> >> - Chris. >> -- >> Chris Ball <c...@laptop.org> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
