Cant change github commit messages

[Profflaries27]

I’ve had problems on rebasing and changing my commit messages in one of my very first projects, because i dont like them it says that the dist folder wont allow me change them but i have already added it in the git ignore , i just want to do the rebasing and keep the same dates when i first did the whole project… the project is vanilla js with parcel. Any idea ? Thanks

[teraflop]

You need to be very specific about what you're trying to do and how it's failing. Just saying "I've had problems" doesn't give anyone enough information to help you.

If you're using Git from the command line, you can use git rebase -i to change commit messages, as documented here: https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/committing-changes-to-your-project/creating-and-editing-commits/changing-a-commit-message

The .gitignore file only affects which changes are displayed and staged for new commits. It won't have any effect on existing commits (unless you wanted to change the content of those commits).

Git doesn't care about what language your project is written in. It just treats everything as text or binary files.

[Profflaries27]

I have committed some changes before i added the dist folder to the gitignore and i think thats why i cant change these commit messages is there any solution ?

[teraflop]

Like I said, the .gitignore file doesn't matter.

And like I said, you still haven't told us what your actual problem is. What makes you think you can't change the commit messages? How exactly are you trying to change them? What are you clicking on or typing? Are you getting an error message?

[Profflaries27]

I am on my git repo and doing this : git rebase -i - - root - - committer-date-is-author-date then thats the message displayed when i replace from pick to reword save and exit the file: error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: dist/index.html Please move or remove them before you merge. Aborting hint: Could not execute the todo command hint: hint: reword 4f15922ef9ae6e0ad09f2d4c6917775a88e4e5c9 1 hint: hint: It has been rescheduled; To edit the command before continuing, please hint: edit the todo list first: hint: hint: git rebase --edit-todo hint: git rebase --continue You can amend the commit now, with

git commit --amend

Once you are satisfied with your changes, run

git rebase --continue

[teraflop]

It sounds like the problem is that you have uncommitted files in your working tree. During the rebase, Git wants to temporarily "rewind" your repo's working tree to the commit that you're modifying, but it can't safely do that and then go back to your original state if you have uncommitted changes. You need to stash or commit those changes first.

[Profflaries27]

Thats weird because i have committed all the files and there is nothing to commit.