Git

(the post is automatically translated by AI) Introduction When using Git [1] for version control, it’s easy to accidentally make a typo in a commit message — or simply realize later that it could be worded better. In those cases, you need to go back and fix the commit message. The basic approach is git commit --amend [2], which corrects the most recent commit message. In this article, I’ll document how to go back to an older commit — not just the last one — and edit its message for future reference. ...

(the post is automatically translated by AI) Introduction With the plugin development mostly done, the next task is to merge two parallel branches of work. Git provides two approaches for this: merge and rebase. In this article, I’ll explain how rebase works and illustrate it with a practical example from our development workflow. How It Works git rebase replays commits from one branch on top of another, using the target branch as the new base. Suppose you have two branches A and B with diverging histories — you need to integrate their differences. ...