Re: Git help: amending a substandard commit message in savannah.

[Artur Malabarba]

> .  When I attempt to push this to savannah with
>
>     git push --force
>
> , my attempt quite properly gets rejected with an error message.

Are you sure that message wasn't because you inadvertently tried force
pushing to master? I think older git versions default to pushing
everything if you don't specify branches.
I'm asking this because I'm relatively certain I've force pushed to
scratch branches in the past without issues.