[Sugar-devel] Git commit comment mistake

[Asaf Paris Mandoki]

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 gitorious at git.sugarlabs.org:physics/mainline.git

Do you think it can break subsequent pulls? I Just want to amend the
commit comment.

Thanks,
Asaf

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Ball<cjb at 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   <cjb at laptop.org>
>