Edit the root commit in Git?

Question

There\'s ways to change the message from later commits:

git commit --amend                    # for the most recent co         


        

Answer 1

To expand on ecdpalma's answer, you can now use the --root option to tell rebase that you want to rewrite the root/first commit:

git rebase --interactive --root

Then the root commit will show up in the rebase TODO list, and you can select to edit or reword it:

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This is the explanation of --root from the Git rebase docs (emphasis mine):

Rebase all commits reachable from , instead of limiting them with an . This allows you to rebase the root commit(s) on a branch.