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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode•se>
Cc: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib•de>, git <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git push bug?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:49:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071019004926.GR14735@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1192723847.9433.25.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>

Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode•se> wrote:
> BTW this does not work either:
> 
> git reset --hard HEAD^
> git push -f  ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git +master:master
> updating 'refs/heads/master'
>   from 9c344d18d01221c8f25080cb58910e6b09efbf55
>   to   5761a9e5924b34615c748fba2dcb977ed04c1243
> Generating pack...
> Done counting 0 objects.
> Writing 0 objects...
> Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
> error: denying non-fast forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first)
> ng refs/heads/master non-fast forward
> error: failed to push to 'ssh://devsrv/var/git/os2kernel.git'
> 
> I thought the + in +master:master and the -f option should let me
> do that.

Yes, but its only on the client side.

See when we do a push the local client side determines if the push is
going to be a fast-forward or not.  If it isn't then the git-push
client aborts before it even uploads data to the remote side.
The --force or + can be used to make the client side skip this
check and just plow forward anyway.

But the remote side can also veto a non-fast-forward update.  By
default it refuses to allow such updates as they can orphan commits
(and thus potentially lose important work).  See the config option
receive.denyNonFastForwards; you may want to set this to true in
the remote side's config file.

-- 
Shawn.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-19  0:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-18 14:50 git push bug? Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-18 15:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-18 16:01   ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-18 16:10     ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19  0:49       ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2007-10-18 16:13     ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-18 16:21     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-18 16:31       ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-18 22:00         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 14:47           ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19 17:24             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-19 18:50               ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19 22:46                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-20 12:05                 ` Jan Hudec
2007-10-18 16:55       ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-18 21:58         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-20  8:29           ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-20  8:38             ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-10-20 11:52             ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-10-19  0:24   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-20 17:38     ` Joakim Tjernlund

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