How to reuse message when amending the last commit?

[salehi-hassan]

I am wondering what's the quickest way to undo the last commit, apply changes and commit agin with the old commit message.

So far, the solution I found is I can go to the 'Reflog' and copy the deleted commit message. Is there any quicker approach?

In VSCode, when you undo a commit using its built-in source control tool, it always keep the message in the commit section for the next commit.

[mark2185]

If you just want to add/modify changes, press A in the Files panel.

For removing things from the commit, take a look at the tutorial feature called "Custom patch".

[stefanhaller]

A few more options, none of which are really great:

• Instead of dropping the commit, you could revert it; then, when making the new commit, press up-arrow twice to recall its commit message. After making the commit, range-select the original commit and the revert, and hit d to drop both at once.
• Instead of taking the commit message from the reflog, you could copy it from the old commit before dropping it. However, pasting the message into the new commit is still cumbersome either way; I have opened Add command to the commit message menu to paste a message from the clipboard #3672 to address this.
• Instead of dropping the old commit, you could make it empty, so that you can amend your new changes into it using shift-A. To make the commit empty, press enter on it, then shift-down to select all files, and d to drop them all.

[salehi-hassan]

Thanks all! The more I think the more I understand there was no need to reuse the message if I actually amend it 😄 The habit comes from the fact, I used to run 'git reset --soft' and then stage the changes and commit again.