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Oh shit I accidentally force pushed my local master branch to origin.

Well, if you're already force-pushed it once, you might as well force-push the right commit (from reflog, if necessary) back to it again.

Only works if you've recently fetched origin, otherwise it'll be a challenge sorting out what the previous HEAD was.

--force-with-lease is almost always the flag you ought to use instead.

"--force-with-lease alone, without specifying the details, will protect all remote refs that are going to be updated by requiring their current value to be the same as the remote-tracking branch we have for them."

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