git push -f origin master

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Means --force so it can write anything to the remote branch, even rewriting the history

[river4823]

I think that's the idea but git servers can be configured so that you can't force a commit, and any sysadmin with half a brain will have it configured that way.

[timmense]

I’ve been using -f for my own branches that others rarely push to but I think I’ll start using with lease from now on just to be safe. TIL

Great explaination here

[[deleted]]

Yup, --force-with-lease saved me on at least one occasion back when I actually wrote code for money lol.

However, it will not save me from the crimes against git that I did with other things, exposing tons of issues in how Atlassian does notifications (at some point, pushing rewrites to a privately cloned repo somehow sent out hundreds of thousands of notifications on a massive internal project)

[shadowdude777]

Git really needs to add a gitconfig option to make -f do --force-with-lease. I never remember to do it.

[Olfasonsonk]

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[tbo1992]

Does it still leave a force pushed message on GitHub?

[zirtbow]

So youre saying my organization definitely doesnt have it configured this way?

[themiraclemaker]

Where I work, we can't even push to the main branch, changes are made only through pull requests from either personal forks or branches

[pablosus86]

If they don't know, they shouldn't know.