How often do you make commits to a Git branch to later realise that you need to amend one of your unpushed commits?
A simple git commit --amend
will only work on the most recent commit, so that won't work if you've added more commits after the one you want to amend.
You can make a temporary commit, rebase your branch and squash the temporary commit into the original one.
Or you can use git-instafix - a tool for easily fixing and amending old commits.
Instead of making a temporary commit, running git-instafix
will show your unpushed commits - allowing you to select one and it will amend it for you in a single step, making it easier to keep your Git commit history cleaner and easier to read and review.