Does lazygit use --force or --force-with-lease while force pushing commit?

[byteZorvin]

When my commit history and lg shows a dialog box if I want to force push the commits, which option is used while force pushing.
It is safer to use --force-with-lease which does not override a teammates work and is safer to use.

[mark2185]

Related discussion.

[stefanhaller]

It is safer to use --force-with-lease

No, it is not, at least not when used on its own. I have been trying to combat this misinformation for a long time now. When used on its own, --force-with-lease provides very little additional protection over --force. See the link that Luka posted above for more information.

But yes, lazygit does use --force-with-lease, and it is strongly recommended that you also turn on git config --global push.useForceIfIncludes true to make it actually safe.

[byteZorvin]

I read the above discussion and understood that --force-with-lease offer no security.

But yes, lazygit does use --force-with-lease

So why not use --force-if-includes instead of --force-with-lease

[stefanhaller]

That's a very good question. Unfortunately, --force-if-includes is not perfect and sometimes rejects a push that is perfectly fine; most notably, when the local branch name is different from the remote tracking branch (see here; unfortunately there were no replies). So some people might not want to turn it on for that reason, so we would have to make it configurable in lazygit. However, it is our policy that if something is already configurable in git, we don't add the same option again in lazygit.

[byteZorvin]

Thank for the quick response. Got my answer. Thanks for making lazygit so awesome ❤️