Amend commit

[JavierSegoviaCordoba]

Is it possible to amend the commit?

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As of now, it's not possible, but it's a feature that could be added!

[JavierSegoviaCordoba]

GitHub Actions has a weird behavior when it is triggered by pull_request. The latest commit is a temporal merge commit (which later disappears), so if you amend the commit, that merge one will be used.

Should be great if you take care of this so you can just drop the last one and then amend if the action is triggered by pull_request and/or add an input flag.

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I'm planning to allow you to edit the arguments of the git commit command (also getting rid of the signoff input).
While resetting to the previous commit can be done I'd prefer not to add something that will probably need some tuning anyway because of edge cases: I think it's better if you reset to the previous commit manually before running the action, since it's a more complex use case.

[JavierSegoviaCordoba]

I was doing some tries and reset the head to remove the latest commit that was not working correctly on GitHub Actions, not sure if I was doing something wrong because I am not a git expert. Can you help me take a look to it?

I tried:

• git reset --hard HEAD^
• git reset --soft HEAD~1

For some reason, all commits in that PR are disappearing because everything was amended to the latest main commit used by the pull request branch. Something so weird.

The use case is:

Renovate or dependabot create a PR, then pull_request is triggered, so I read the commit, I add the commit (it contains the updates) to CHANGELOG.md, and later I want to amend these changes to the commit created by Renovate, and push.

What is the workaround should I use?.

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To be honest, I've never had to amend commits in pull requests, so I don't really know how GitHub handles PR commits. Also, dependabot might mess up the commit history of its branches, since it always force-pushes when it updates a PR: it's the intended behavior for Dependabot's typical use case, but I don't know how it affects the commit history of the branch...

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@all-contributors please add @JavierSegoviaCordoba for their idea

[allcontributors]

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I've put up a pull request to add @JavierSegoviaCordoba! 🎉