How to do a forced-push to another branch in Git

Question

Doing a forced push is done by:

git push origin +branch 

Doing a push to a differently-named remote branch is done by:

git push origin local:remote 

How does one do a forced push to a differently-named remote branch?

I tried:

git push origin local:+remote 

But it creates a new branch named +remote

Answer 1

The + needs to come at the beginning of the argument representing the couple.

git push origin +localBranchName:remoteBranchName 

That's hard to remember sometimes, so there's also the --force flag.

git push origin --force localBranchName:remoteBranchName 

But be aware if you push multiple branches with that flag, then they will all be force pushed.

git push origin --force localBranchName:remoteBranchName anotherLocalBranch 

In that case, you may not have wanted to force push anotherLocalBranch, so you should instead use the + to specify which ones you want forced.

git push origin +localBranchNameForced:remoteBranchName localBranchNotForced:remoteBranchNotForced +anotherLocalBranchForcePushedToUpstreamTracking 

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