Package: git-debpush
Version: 12.12
Severity: wishlist

I was in a situation where 'git push --force' would have been necessary
to force-push to some changes, and used 'git-debpush --force'.

However this doesn't pass --force to 'git push'.

Reviewing the man page, I would tend to agree that this is the right
approach since --force is used to mean something different here.

However, I think the situation is still a bit sub-optimal.

How about a 'git debpush --force=git-push' mode?

Alternatively, document this and suggest that in this rather odd
situation, people can use 'git-debpush --tag-only' and then do the 'git
push --force' since it is really an unsafe way of working.

/Simon

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Hello,

On Wed 14 May 2025 at 03:42pm +02, Simon Josefsson wrote:

Package: git-debpush
Version: 12.12
Severity: wishlist

I was in a situation where 'git push --force' would have been necessary
to force-push to some changes, and used 'git-debpush --force'.

However this doesn't pass --force to 'git push'.

Reviewing the man page, I would tend to agree that this is the right
approach since --force is used to mean something different here.

However, I think the situation is still a bit sub-optimal.

How about a 'git debpush --force=git-push' mode?

Alternatively, document this and suggest that in this rather odd
situation, people can use 'git-debpush --tag-only' and then do the 'git
push --force' since it is really an unsafe way of working.

The idea is that --force forces any and all applicable --force=foo.
I agree with you that --force implying doing a git force push is
probably unwanted. Therefore if we add an option for this, it would
need to be a specially naemd one, e.g. --force-push.

Right now I am leaning towards documenting "git-debpush never does force pushes, if you need that do an explicit "git push --force", as you also suggest.

--
Sean Whitton

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