Subject: Interleaved remote branch update problems

From: Martin Fick <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2012 15:49:14 -0600

I have noticed that git push --force does not reliably force 
a push to remote branches.  In particular, it will not 
update a remote branch if that branch has been updated since 
the beginning of the push.  Is this normal, is this 
expected?  It also fails to fast forward in a similar 
situation without the -f flag.  This seems counter intuitive 
from the perspective of a git push user.  Are there good 
reasons for this?

-Martin

(Using git 1.7.8 or 1.7.10-rc3)

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