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by ZeroGravitas 2595 days ago
This was new to me, and makes me feel better about force pushing. However, while googling to find out if I could set this as the default behaviour I found an Stack Overflow answer that as well as saying "no" points out a very git-like gotcha:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30542491/push-force-with...

Apparently it will think you know about the changes if you've fetched them, even if you've not merged them. And some systems auto fetch in the background.