I feel that I'm using
git push --force
too much.

Anybody else feels this way too?

Sometimes it's good to use
git push --gently
Life is short.

Never used force. I heard it's bad 😄

Depends how fucked up your work colleagues are

did anyone say gitpush?

You may want to consider using --force-with-lease. I have used --force a lot too but was always a bit worried to accidentally override something. -with-lease is definitely a better choice as it checks remote changes first

It's not a big deal if you're the only contributor.

In some git workflows, it's normal. If you always rebase your stuff, it happens a lot; if you merge everything and still pushes with force, then something might be wrong.

@dread-uo Yea, I’m currently taking a software engineering module in school, and as you can guess, groupmates aren’t familiar with git workflow.

So mistakes were made and git push —force was used to clean up mistakes... a shit ton of them.

The alternative would be to have half of the team repo commits be for correcting checkstyle

You are NOT supposed to use it regardless of the workflow. It basically means: Remote server, your history is bad, take mine. In the worst case scenario you are obliterating other people's commits.

Sounds like an issue with your git workflow more than anything else, really. I started using feature branches in my multi-person side projects and have never had to —force since.

How the fuck can you people use --force so regularly without feeling bad about it?

I only use it on the occasion when my boss or the intern fucks up the repo an I have to clean up the mess. 😉

@jclin95 just make the master branch protected so only you or some other competent person can accept merge requests on it or directly push.

never needed to use it either. never needed a rebase too. merge often and do decent reviews on merge/pull requests, don't let untested code going entirely through your pipeline. and then you are almost safe 😉

I use git for years and never used --force.

@vesper srsly, you never used it's full potential of screwing up things! You should try it! It's life changing!

I worked once with a workflow where there weren't any merge commits on git history, and we always rebased our code. I like that workflow, but it demands some care with rebasing and force pushing.