At 12:53 -0700 09 Jul 2013, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
+This is meant to make `--force` safer to use. Imagine that you have
+to rebase what you have already published. You will have to
+`--force` the push to replace the history you originally published
+with the rebased history. If somebody else built on top of your
+original history while you are rebasing, the tip of the branch at
+the remote may advance with her commit, and blindly pushing with
+`--force` will lose her work. By using this option to specify that
+you expect the history you are updating is what you rebased and want
+to replace, you can make sure other people's work will not be losed
+by a forced push. in such a case.
s/losed/lost/
How does this behave if --force is not used? I think it would be best
if it was a no-op in that case to make it easy to add a config option to
turn this on by default.
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