til/vim/reword-a-commit-message-with-fugitive.md

Reword A Commit Message With Fugitive

When you have the fugitive summary buffer (:Gedit :) open and there are unpushed commits, you'll see them listed below the working tree and staging area details. If you notice an issue with the wording of any of those commits, you can initiate an interactive rebase to reword the commit from that window.

Navigate the cursor over that commit and then hit rw (for reword).

This will split open an interactive rebase buffer with reword <SHA>. Save that buffer and the commit message will be opened into a buffer where it can be amended, just like if you were to amend a commit with an interactive rebase from the CLI.

The rw binding can be used in any fugitive view where commits are listed. For instance run :Git log, navigate to any commit, and then hit rw.

See :h fugitive_r for details about all the rebase mappings.