I cloned a repository to my local machine.Then, i created a new branch (from the current `master` )using `git checkout -b dev/abc/test1`. I am the only person working on this branch. I worked on this branch for a few hours and then made commits and did `git push`and created a pull request. Reviewers made some comments on this pull request.

Before starting to work on those comments, i did, `git checkout master`, then, `git pull` to update `master` branch. Later, i wanted to merge those changes(there were a lot many changes in `master` since i had last updated it) to my branch `dev/abc/test1`.

Hence, i did `git checkout dev/abc/test1`. Then i did `git reset --hard origin/master` and then `git merge origin/master`. So, all my changes from this branch were lost as expected. I manually copy pasted the changes i made from the pull request. Now i started to work on those reviewer comments and fixed all of them, did a `git commit` and then `git push` but only to see the message

```
hint: Updates were rejected because the tip of your current branch is behind
hint: its remote counterpart.

```

To avoid this, i went ahead with `git push --force`.

Will this have any negative impact? I see one of the comments saying here **[Cannot push to GitHub - keeps saying need merge](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10298291/cannot-push-to-github-keeps-saying-need-merge)** that `'forcing' is most of the time, if not always, the wrong answer`. Will my approach impact the repository in any negative way ? (As a side note, i am the only individual contributor to the branch `dev/abc/test1`)