Changing GIT commit message from commit in history

Try and find the commit characters just before your commit using git log. See Image for clarification

git log

Once you have found your 6 characters. Say in our case this is 200052

git rebase --interactive 200052


Your editor will come up with several lines as seen in the image. If you not familiar with the default editor (probably vim) you should press i before you can edit

Change the word pick into reword in front of the commit you'd like to change. Press ESC and type :wq

A new file opens and by pressing i you can now edit the commit message