How to amend the last commit in Git ?

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Have you ever faced a situation where you left something out of your last commit ? It may be a file or an extra change to a file you just committed. 

Such kind of scenarios can easily be handled with Git amend command .

How does it work ?

1. Just add the file using git add ( Like what we do for  normal commit ).

git add <file>

2. Now commit the changes with -amend argument.

git commit --amend

If you don’t specify a commit message with -m , git picks the previous commit message as a default.

How to see the amended commit ?

We can use git log –stat to see the amended commit with extra change .