Not as quick as you're asking for, but what I do, after running "git log" to jog my memory of what the commit message was, is this: git commit --fixup=':/mes

Not as quick as you're asking for, but what I do, after running "git log" to jog my memory of what the commit message was, is this: git commit --fixup=':/message regexp' This will find the youngest commit where the message matches the "message regexp" pattern. See also: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions