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When you screw up git (lemmy.zip)
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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 week ago (9 children) 
git reset --hard <commit-hash>  
git push -f origin main

i didn't see anything, officer

[–] martinb@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

git push origin master --force-with-leash

Don't do that to your master.

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

only do that in puppygit (with consent)

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