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		margaretdouglas on Aug 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oh Shit, Git? Only works if you've recently fetched origin, otherwise it'll be a challenge sorting out what the previous HEAD was.

sio8ohPi on Aug 16, 2020 [–]

--force-with-lease is almost always the flag you ought to use instead.

"--force-with-lease alone, without specifying the details, will protect all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have for them."

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