how to make git push origin --force ; in Visual Studio Team Explorer

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serup picture serup · Aug 25, 2017 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

I recently had an issue where I had to disregard my last commit, so on the command line I did following:

git push origin --force

this works fine, however I normally make my push/pulls from inside Visual Studio Team Explorer, however I could not find out how to --force a push from there

Is it possible or can it only be done from command line?

Answer

AutoTester213 picture AutoTester213 · Aug 25, 2017

You can enable --force without using command prompt in visual studio 2017 as follows Open team explorer.

Team Explorer>Settings>Git>Global Settings

check the enable push --force checkbox and that should do the trick like so Check box

For more info check out this link

PS. **This feature is only available in visual studio 2017+ **

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