Re: [PATCH] pull: add --hard mode

On Thu, Aug 20, 2026, at 18:43, Artur Bieniek wrote:
> One case where --ff-only does not seem to cover that audience is when
> the upstream branch itself is rewritten.
>
> For example, a checkout may contain no local development at all and only
> be used to track the latest state of an upstream branch, but if that
> branch is rebased or otherwise force-updated, git pull --ff-only will
> refuse to update it because the histories have diverged.

I don’t understand what you need a branch for in that case. I just use
the remote-tracking branch in that case (`origin/main` e.g.).

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