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The 'push -f' suggestion could instead recommend 'push --force-with-lease' to be less error prone in case one is accidentally pushing to a concurrently modified branch.

Also, unless the diagram is confusing with the alignment, the "rebase to rebase" example seems to be implicitly assuming --onto, because the last common ancestor of 'master' and 'feature-2' includes 2 commits on that branch: the first of 'feature-1' and then the one that is only on 'feature-2'.

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I've heard this before, but I felt that `--force-with-lease` requires a lengthier explanation in an an already intimidating article, is harder to type, and generally isn't useful for users of the Sourcehut workflow. It's definitely a useful tool, though. Maybe I should add a footnote.

I disagree, I'd suggest just including the plain `--force-with-lease` since it's generally a tool that stops breaking stuff to happen. In particular, the assumption that your branch isn't publicly used is usually wrong if `--force-with-lease` fails.

I do sympathise, it's hard to keep it at a high level, but many people just copy what they see.

One thing I do in our team is provide git novices with some useful aliases, one of them being `fpush = push --force-with-lease`. It's saved a few people losing work along the years

I don't get the "extra letters" argument as a Computer Scientist. Most of my time is spent figuring out what I'm going to do before I type anything, whether that's research, staring at code for hours to see how it works, or something else. I could type 3x as many characters each day and would probably only work an extra 10 minutes per day. Maybe I'm the exception, but I don't like brevity for brevity sake.

You could also consider it "harder to remember".

I normally use "git push --fo<TAB>" or "git push --fo<UP ARROW>" in zsh, but after seeing the switch option "--force-with-lease" pop up each time I've memorized it now. I let my CLI do the work for me most of the time, but when I can't there's always "man COMMAND". After doing anything a bunch of times, you remember it.

I just made a git alias `fpush` that does --force-with-lease

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