push --force-with-lease by default

Question

I just learned about git push --force-with-lease. It\'s pretty awesome. But, of course, I don\'t use force that often, and so I\'m worried that I might forget a

Answer 1

My solution was to create a wrapper script, and use an alias so that I always use it in place of the real git.

Whenever I try to git push -f, I see the following:

⚡ git push -f
use this instead so you don't cause race conditions in the 
repo: git push --force-with-lease

Some advantages of this script are:

• it trains me to habitually use --force-with-lease, so i don't get nagged when i get it wrong
• if, for some reason, we really do need to force push, git push --force will work.

How to implement it:

1. create a custom script that will pass through any params to git, except for -f
2. alias that script so we use it instead of git

These instructions assume Linux or Mac, running bash. I haven't tried this with zsh or Windows, but I assume it'll work there too.

~/.bash_profile:

alias git=~/.git_wrapper.sh

~./git_wrapper.sh:

#!/bin/bash
for arg in "$@"; do
    if [ "$arg" = "push" ]; then
        ispush=1
    elif [ "$ispush" = 1 -a "$arg" = '-f' ]; then
        echo "use this instead so you don't cause race conflicts in the repo: git push --force-with-lease"
        exit 1
    fi
done

git "$@"

With those changes, restart your terminal and git should now get uppity when you try to force push.