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Asked: 2026-06-06T20:48:15+00:00

My ideal workflow would consist of the following steps edit the code compile git

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My ideal workflow would consist of the following steps

  1. edit the code
  2. compile
  3. git commit -a -m “commit message”
  4. start running the new binaries, tests, etc. (may take 10+ minutes)
  5. start new changes, while the binaries are still running
  6. when step # 4 is finished, edit the commit message from step # 3, without committing the changes introduced in step # 5, by adding, say, “test FOO failed”

I cannot use git commit -a --amend -m "new commit message", because this commits the new changes as well. I’m not sure that I want to bother with staging or branching. I wish I could just edit the commit message without committing any new changes. Is it possible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    There’s no need to stash or do anything else here.

    git commit --amend -m 'Your new message.'

    will not commit any new changes (note the lack of -a flag), provided that you haven’t explicitly added them to the index (using git add, for example).

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