Re: [Savannah-users] git push -f

[Andreas Schwab]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> WTF, I tried to use "git push -f" to savannah, but it wouldn't let me:
>
>    $ git push -f sv
>    Counting objects: 90, done.
>    Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
>    Compressing objects: 100% (70/70), done.
>    Writing objects: 100% (70/70), 30.27 KiB, done.
>    Total 70 (delta 50), reused 0 (delta 0)
>    remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/master (you should pull 
> first)
>    To ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/snogray.git
>     ! [remote rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)
>    error: failed to push some refs to 
> 'ssh://git.sv.gnu.org/srv/git/snogray.git'
>
> What setting can I change to allow this?

Would it have worked if you deleted and recreated the branch?

Andreas.

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