# How to view diff when doing `git push --force`

3 messages from 2017-03-11 to 2018-01-10. Participants: KES, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45354

## KES, 2017-03-11 14:52

Subject: How to view diff when doing `git push --force`
Message-ID: <6962041489243945@web20g.yandex.ru>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6962041489243945%40web20g.yandex.ru

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Hi. I have done `git push --force` but I forget to `pull`, 


Counting objects: 7, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 765 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 7 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0)
To xxxgit:cry/cry.git
 + 48e9058...117ee39 staging -> staging (forced update)

But I can not view diff:

git show 48e9058...117ee39
fatal: ambiguous argument '48e9058...117ee39': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'


May I pull info about changes that was deleted?

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## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2017-03-11 19:30

Subject: Re: How to view diff when doing `git push --force`
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In-Reply-To: <6962041489243945@web20g.yandex.ru>

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On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:52 PM, KES <kes-kes@yandex.ru> wrote:
> Hi. I have done `git push --force` but I forget to `pull`,
>
> Counting objects: 7, done.
> Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
> Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
> Writing objects: 100% (7/7), 765 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
> Total 7 (delta 6), reused 0 (delta 0)
> To xxxgit:cry/cry.git
>  + 48e9058...117ee39 staging -> staging (forced update)
>
> But I can not view diff:
>
> git show 48e9058...117ee39
> fatal: ambiguous argument '48e9058...117ee39': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
> Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
> 'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
>
> May I pull info about changes that was deleted?

At this point, no, but in the future instead of --force use
--force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect> where <expect> is e.g. $(git
rev-parse HEAD).

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## KES, 2018-01-10 13:48

Subject: Re: How to view diff when doing `git push --force`
Message-ID: <40271515592088@web42o.yandex.ru>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/40271515592088%40web42o.yandex.ru
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5g95nTtA5--g8K29FjQ=dU3JLEfVXZjUs8J2Y-QCzYHg@mail.gmail.com>

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> At this point, no, but in the future instead of --force use
> --force-with-lease=<refname>:<expect> where <expect> is e.g. $(git
> rev-parse HEAD).

Thank you.

But I have found next command to see what were changed. 
For example if someone did forced push and I wanna see changes before merge remote

git log --graph --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --cherry-mark --boundary --left-right

But is there an option to view changes in amended commits?

See the last code post about unknown option  in the next answer :
https://stackoverflow.com/a/48149931/4632019


If there is no such option. Will it be useful to have it?

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