Make sure you don't have any working copy changes staged before doing this or they will get committed too. …however, this can make multi-line commit messages or small corrections more cumbersome to enter.
Additionally, you can set the commit message directly in the command line with: git commit -amend -m 'New commit message' Will open your editor, allowing you to change the commit message of the most recent commit.
Amending the most recent commit message git commit -amend
