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When you screw up git (lemmy.zip)
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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 days ago (1 children) 
git reset --hard <commit-hash>  
git push -f origin main

i didn't see anything, officer

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You should be forcibly kept away from production systems...

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We had an intern do this once. We changed our server config to make sure it wouldn’t accept such operations.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It’s just a branch guard + properly implementing git user and team permission structures - you’re not “configuring a server”

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I wonder what you think "configuring" means.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

git push origin master --force-with-leash

Don't do that to your master.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

only do that in puppygit (with consent)