Re: Tools that do an automatic fetch defeat "git push --force-with-lease"

> On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> wrote:
> > When I'm rewriting history, "git push --force-with-lease" is a nice
> > safeguard compared to "git push --force", but it still assumes the
> > remote-tracking ref gives the old state the user wants to overwrite.
> > Tools that do an implicit fetch, assuming it to be a safe operation,
> > may break this assumption.  In the worst case, Visual Studio Code does
> > an automatic fetch every 3 minutes by default [1], making
> > --force-with-lease pretty much reduce to --force.
> >
> 
> Isn't the point of force-with-lease to actually record a "commit" id,
> and not pass it a branch name, but actually the sha1 you intend the
> remote server to be at? Sure if you happen to pass it a branch or
> remote name it will interpret it for yuou, but you should be able to
> do something like
> 
> current=$(git rev-parse origin/branch)
> <verify current is correct and then do your rewind stuff>
> git push --force-with-lease=$current
> 
> and this will work regardless of when if if you fetch in between?