Can I amend commits instead of making a new one and rebasing/squashing?

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To edit pull requests while keeping the number of commits the same, I've been adding new commits and rebasing/squashing them, but I was recently told that you can just amend commits and achieve the same thing...how might I do this?

I've only been able to find stuff on how to change the commit message, not update the commit itself

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/179123/how-to-modify-existing-unpushed-commit-messages — Lucas H. Xu, Jun 14 '19 at 02:30

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 14 '19 at 04:58

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When you git add file you then git commit --amend It should work. This seems to be very good documentation: amend

edited Jun 14 '19 at 04:58

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answered Jun 13 '19 at 17:22

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Can I amend commits instead of making a new one and rebasing/squashing?

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