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)

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>]
# or, to avoid an editor
git tag -m "tag message" -f -a <tagname> [<commit> | <object>]

git push -f <remotename> refs/tags/<tagname>

for Example:

git tag -m "moving tag to new commit" -f -a my_tag [commit hash]
git push -f origin refs/tags/my_tag

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)

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After doing this, if you get an error would clobber existing tag, then you need to sync local tags with remote using git fetch --tags -f and the push new commits.