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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I assume the accident was not to force push, but to the wrong branch

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I hope they learned the value of protecting your branches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is why I always git push origin +branch_name

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My go-to these days is to push the current branch, dynamically.
git push origin HEAD

Depending on the VC, HEAD has different prefix/suffixes to make it work.

Edit: formatting, also I never checkout master I do origin/master so I cannot even push it with this method. I think