How to Force Push in Git
Sunday, November 2, 2025
Force pushing in Git overwrites the remote repository history with your local changes, which can be necessary after operations like rebasing or amending commits. As the creator of CoreUI with over 25 years of software development experience, I use force push carefully when cleaning up commit history before merging feature branches. The safer approach is using --force-with-lease instead of --force to prevent accidentally overwriting other developers’ work.