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Force With Lease Alias

🗓️ Published: 4/15/2026 Originally on X: 4/28/2022
Force With Lease Alias

It is much easier to type git push --force than git push --force-with-lease, which makes the unsafe version tempting in a hurry.

Make the safer command shorter:

git config --global alias.enforce "push --force-with-lease"

Then use:

git enforce

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