Someone much wider than me once told me: if I ever felt the need to use the force flag as part of a command (hg or not), odds are I&#x27;m trying to do something I shouldn&#x27;t be doing. As it turns out, I haven&#x27;t used that flag since, because whenever I thought I needed it, it turned out I was going about something the wrong way.<p>That being said, like you, I use hg, haven&#x27;t used git very much.