how to make git push origin --force ; in Visual Studio Team Explorer

Question

I recently had an issue where I had to disregard my last commit, so on the command line I did following:

git push orig         


        

Answer 1

You can enable --force without using command prompt in visual studio 2017 as follows Open team explorer.

Team Explorer>Settings>Git>Global Settings

check the enable push --force checkbox and that should do the trick like so

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PS. **This feature is only available in visual studio 2017+ **