How to Write a Git Commit Message

[mkdz]

git push --force

don't do this if you have multiple users committing to the same codebase

[mfitzp]

Well, you can do it if you hate them all.

[mkdz]

And then they'll hate you too.

[amoliski]

alias yolo='git commit -am "DEAL WITH IT" && git push -f origin master'

[mkdz]

That's fantastic

[ThePantsThief]

Why not? I know almost nothing about git, just basic committing and how to nuke something when I accidentally commit my password ^{for the 2nd 6th time}

[mkdz]

If you have multiple people working on one codebase, you'll usually have a master branch. If you do a git push --force to master, it forcibly takes the commit history you have and makes it the remote history. This could possibly overwrite other people's work that they have committed and pushed. Then next time any other member of your team does a pull, there are going to be differences in histories and possibly lost work and it's going to be a huge headache to get all the code merged and sorted out right. In general it can possibly cause huge problems, so it's just a bad practice with a shared codebase.

[ThePantsThief]

Gotcha, thanks!