- “reword” allows you to change ONLY the commit message, NOT the commit contents
- “edit” allows you to change BOTH commit contents AND commit message (the mechanism by which git allows you to edit the commit contents is by “pausing” the rebase; so you can amend the commit)
reference :
The git-rebase documentation says this:
- edit : By replacing the command “pick” with the command “edit”, you can tell git rebase to stop after applying that commit, so that you can edit the files and/or the commit message, amend the commit, and continue rebasing.
- reword : If you just want to edit the commit message for a commit, replace the command “pick” with the command “reword”.