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On my last project I was the only person who had --force permissions on bitbucket. In six years I used it twice on purpose, and once on accident (and then once again to undo the mistake).

If you want to do a push -f to a branch that only you are working on to finish a rebase -i to make the commits you did in haste make sense, then go for it. But nobody should be forcing to master unless it's to undo a really big fuckup.

One was merging a PR with giant files accidentally attached, the other was re-exporting from perforce because they totally fucked 'git blame' and I wasn't having any of that.



> undo a really big fuckup

People altering the line ending of several files so that you cannot do any normal actions anymore.




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