无法更改（不是最后一个）推送的提交消息

Question

I wan't to change a commit message which is been pushed and its not the last commit. As git documents suggested i just done the rebase as follow:

rebase -i HEAD~2

then edited the result as follows:

reword e499d89 some thig been done
pick 0c39034 some other thing been done

then saved the commit list file successfuly and after that edit of the reworded commit would prompted as follow:

some thig been done
#some comments here
-->list of changelist here

i edited the commit message and save it, but after all idea git log shows no change in git commits and their messages.

Finally the problem was because of commit message text, due to integration of issue tracker and git server we add issue id after a sharp sign in start of any commit so the commit would look like this:

#123 some thing been done

then in final phase of editing the commit message, the entire commit message was interpreted as another comment line (i suppose):

    #123 some thig been done
    #some comments here
    -->list of changelist here

So, just adding a space before sharp sign solved the problem and new commit been created:

 #123 some thig been done
#some comments here
-->list of changelist here

PS: I don't know if it could be called a bug of git or not?!

Answer 1

After passing all operations: rewording -> typing the new commit message -> saving the file -> closing the file
You should force-push the amended commit to change the commit history:

$ git push --force

Answer 2

Suppose the commit log is ABCDE<-master and you want to modify C's commit message.

git checkout master
git reset C --hard
git commit --amend
#modify the change commit message, save and quit
git cherry-pick C..E
#or git cherry-pick D E
#or git cherry-pick D;git cherry-pick E
git push origin -f master:master

If others have cloned or fetched your previous master , you need to notify them to update master to the latest version.

Suppose they have local master as ABCDEFG .

git fetch origin master
git reset B --hard
git rebase FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick F G