Editing Commits with Git Interactive Rebasing

Published: 9/1/25

Author: Joshua Randall

Github

I cannot find any other resources that cover this part of git rebasing, but this is important.

Say if you want to edit a specific commit and use git rebase -i to do so, you may find that the commit that you select won’t be added in the list of commits to edit.

If we include ~ at the end of the commit, it will allow us to include the commit in the interactive rebasing dialogue.

git rebase -i 54ae342~

This is because ~ represents the range of commits for rebasing. Once we make our modifications, we can follow up with git commit --amend. To edit/remove a commit like this, force pushing is required. Make sure to talk with everyone involved in the project + review all changes before force pushing.

Here is an example video.