# Pushing after Rewriting History

If we've previously pushed the branch, the server will reject our push after rewriting history, which can be forced with `--force-with-lease`.

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**Important**:

Before using the commandline version of force push such as `git push --force-with-lease` or `git push --force`, you should make sure the `push default` setting is not `match`. When it's `match` git will push all your local branches that matches the branches on the remote server thus extremely dangerous when combined with `force`

```
# to get the value from the global settings
# assuming it.s global as very likely you won't configure it per project
git config --global --get push.default
# to set the value to nothing
git config --global push.default nothing
```

See <https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#git-config-pushdefault> for other options

#### What is the difference between force-with-lease and force push <a href="#what-is-the-difference-between-force-with-lease-and-force-push" id="what-is-the-difference-between-force-with-lease-and-force-push"></a>

Force with lease is a little bit safer than force as it checks if the remote branch at local PC is the same as the branch at the remote server, for example, the push of `awesome_branch` to GitHub (let's say we are using GitHub) will fail if the local `origin/awesome_branch` at our side is different to the `awesome_branch` on GitHub (Someone else may have pushed something to the branch, but we haven't fetch the commits).


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