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When you screw up git (infosec.pub)
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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Never use --force. Always use --force-with-lease.

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I've mistyped that a couple of times to be --force-with-leash

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 hour ago

git push origin master --force-with-leash

Don't do that to your master.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

only do that in puppygit (with consent)