git push --force-with-lease is unsafe alone; it needs --force-if-includes from Git 2.30

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--force-with-lease compares the remote ref against your remote-tracking ref, so it only protects you if that tracking ref is stale relative to the real remote. Any background 'git fetch', including one fired by an editor plugin or a shell prompt, silently updates the tracking ref and the lease then passes even though you never looked at the new commits. The teammate's work is destroyed anyway.

Git 2.30 (December 2020) added --force-if-includes, which additionally requires that the commit at the tip of the remote-tracking ref is reachable from a reflog entry of the local branch, meaning you actually had those commits in your branch at some point. Use 'git push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes'. Passing --force-if-includes without --force-with-lease is a no-op. There is no config to turn this on by default, so wrap it in an alias such as 'git config --global alias.pushf "push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes"'.

Source: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-push

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