Would a config var for --force-with-lease be useful?
- From
Scott Johnson <jaywir3@gmail.com>
- Date
- Aug 24, 2018, 16:39 UTC
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Hello Everyone:
I'm considering writing a patch that adds a configuration variable that will allow the user to default the command:
git push --force
to:
git push --force-with-lease
As discussed here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30542491/push-force-with-lease-by-default
Now, I understand that there are downsides to having this enabled, namely that a user who has this enabled might forget that they have it enabled, and, as such, on a machine that _doesn't_ have it enabled (of which they are unfamiliar) might then run the more consequential command "git push --force", but my thinking is that adding this as a feature to the git codebase as an _optional_ (i.e. not enabled by default) configuration variable would then save some of us who use a "rebase-then-force-push for pull request" workflow some time and headaches.
Of course, I don't want to submit a patch if this is a feature that isn't likely to be accepted, so I wanted to get some thoughts from the mailing list regarding this idea.
Thank you,
~Scott Johnson