Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] git: forcing non-fast-forward pushes

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 01:05:25AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Has being able to force non-fast-forward pushes (yes, I'm aware of the
> consequences of doing such pushes) been explicitly disabled in the
> Savannah git setup or why does the following fail?  (Or is it me doing
> something wrong at this late hour?)
> 
>     $ git push --force origin master
>     Counting objects: 3, done.
>     Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
>     Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 428 bytes, done.
>     Total 3 (delta 0), reused 2 (delta 0)
>     To ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/hurd.git
>      ! [remote rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward)
>     error: denying non-fast forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first)
>     error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://address@hidden/srv/git/hurd.git'

This is disabled indeed.
Shared Git repository don't allow that by default.

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Sylvain