Still see old commits in 'Activity' after force push

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After I pushed 'bad' commits. I decided to clean up my commit history with git reset command. I choose a commit and reset to this commit. And my commit history is now short and clean. Btw my first commit is from main branch.

And then I used git push --force-with-lease. It forces new commit but the old once are still in the 'Active' tab on github.

Why is it so? Isn't git push --force suppose to rewrite remote repository history?

[gudzilla]

Ok, thanks for a detailed answer.

But what if I merge my current branch with main?
Even though I can see old commits in 'Activity' tab on github in an actual repository there are no old commits right? And I don't see then on git log anymore.
These overwritten commits will not take place anywhere else besides my 'Activity' tab of current branch, right?

[gudzilla]

Thanks a lot for such a detailed answer.

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[njohnso6]

Hi. I recently did a git push --force and now most of my recent commits are gone. They are not viewable on the webUI or with git log, or git reflog even after running git fetch --all. What could cause such a thing and where can I find them?

[am-i-abdullah]

yes please, some help!!