Is there a way to force a git push?

[g12mcgov]

Hi guys,

I'm using GitPython to commit and push some changes in my Python application. However, sometimes my developers and I want to force push the commit (git push --force) instead of sometimes the app failing because it's behind the HEAD of the repository.

Is there an option you can pass into the git.push() method? I haven't seen it documented anywhere and I figured I might as well ask.

Thanks.

[g12mcgov]

Never mind, I made a random guess after reading through the source code, and found you can force it via the following keyword argument.

repo.git.push(force=True)

And that will do it. This should be documented somewhere.

[Byron]

Great to hear that intuition led to the solution !
Indeed, the arguments to the <repo>.git.* methods are not documented in the tutorial, and I couldn't easily find explicit documentation about it elsewhere either. Users would certainly benefit from an update, and maybe you will feel like contributing to the documentation at some point - PRs are always welcome.

In short, this is how python arguments are translated to the command-line:

• m=True -> -m
• m="foo" -> -mfoo
• message="foo" -> --message "foo"
• -somethingveryspecial -> -somethingveryspecial
  • With non-keyword-arguments, the order is kept as is