I was in a situation where 'git push --force' would have been necessary
to force-push to some changes, and used 'git-debpush --force'.

However this doesn't pass --force to 'git push'.

Reviewing the man page, I would tend to agree that this is the right
approach since --force is used to mean something different here.

However, I think the situation is still a bit sub-optimal.

How about a 'git debpush --force=git-push' mode?

Alternatively, document this and suggest that in this rather odd
situation, people can use 'git-debpush --tag-only' and then do the 'git
push --force' since it is really an unsafe way of working.

/Simon

Hello,

The idea is that --force forces any and all applicable --force=foo.
I agree with you that --force implying doing a git force push is
probably unwanted.  Therefore if we add an option for this, it would
need to be a specially naemd one, e.g. --force-push.

Right now I am leaning towards documenting "git-debpush never does force
pushes, if you need that do an explicit "git push --force", as you also
suggest.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dgit, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1105756@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (supplier of updated dgit package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:07:04 +0100
Source: dgit
Architecture: source
Version: 13.1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian tag2upload Delegates <dgit-owner@debian.org>
Changed-By: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Closes: 1105756 1105815 1105862 1105878 1106078 1106481 1107226 1107550
Changes:
 dgit (13.1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   git-debpush behavioural improvements [Sean Whitton]:
   * Detect apparent intent to use pristine-tar (which is not supported).
     Closes: #1105862.  [Reports from Simon Josefsson, Anton Gladky]
   * Detect presence of git submodules, and fail early.
     Closes: #1107226.  [Report from Andrea Pappacoda]  See also #726953.
   * When checks fail, prompt interactively, asking whether to proceed.
     Closes: #1105815, #1107550.
   * Rename hazardous --quilt=auto, to --quilt=try-linear.
     [Prompted by report from Anton Gladky]
 .
   git-debpush(1) improvements [Sean Whitton]:
   * Document that we never do a git force push.
     Closes: #1105756.  [Report from Simon Josefsson]
   * --quilt=gbp: Mention quilt(1) explicitly.  [Report from Anton Gladky]
   * Fix erroneous dedent location for end of list of options.
 .
   tag2upload infrastructure:
   * t2u-b-rebuild: Improve logging and error handling.
   * tag2upload-oracled: Predeclare some function prototypes.
     Closes: #1105878.  [Sean Whitton]
 .
   Documentation:
   * Update to non-ancient distribution names in many docs.  [Marc Haber]
   * tag2upload(t5); Fix and clarify semantics of unknown tags,
     multiplicity, ordering, and syntax of keyword=value.
     Closes: #1106078.  [Report from Matthias Urlichs]
   * i18n: Updated message translation for nl.
     Closes: #1106481.  [Frans Spiesschaert]
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