Re: [Savannah-users] git push -f

[Tim Landscheidt]

Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:

>> 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?

IIRC, I did exactly that (successfully) in 2010.  Was the
configuration changed recently?

Tim