git - Change connected commit on release github

Question

How you I change the connected commit on a github release?

I want to change it to an earlier commit, because I created the release afterwards (after some commits to release 0.9)

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24849362/change-connected-commit-on-release-github

Answer 1

When you consider the GitHub API for creating a release, you see a release needs:

• a tag
• a commit referenced by that tag

So you need to move your tag (locally first, then push it to your GitHub repo)

git tag -f -a <tagname> [<commit> | <object>]
git push -f <reponame> refs/tags/<tagname>

Then see if that is enough for the release to be updated.
(See "How do you push a tag to a remote repository using Git?")

If not, you might have to delete that release, and recreate it on the same tag (which will refer to the new commit)