Re: Replacing a Remote Branch

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On 07/23/2010 04:48 PM, Thomas Rast wrote:
> Eric James Michael Ritz wrote:
>>   2. I realized I need to perform some ‘destructive’ action like
>>   ‘rebase -i’ or amend the last commit to fix a typo in the message.
>>
>>   3. Then I want to push the changed branch as a replacement.
> [...]
>>     $ git push origin :foo && git push origin foo
>>
>> to replace `foo`.  But is there a shorter way to do this?  I thought
>> that writing something like
>>
>>     $ git push origin +foo:foo
>>
>> may have the intended effect, but I still get a rejection due to a
>> non-fast-forward, so I am likely misunderstanding the purpose of `+`.
>
> Since + overrides the non-ff check, this means that the remote side
> has receive.denyNonFastForwards (see man git-config) enabled (or a
> hook to the same effect).  Deleting and pushing the new branch merely
> defeats this refusal because it is no longer a branch *update*.
>
> You should probably check why and by who receive.denyNonFastForwards
> was set.  Git itself sets it if you use 'git init --shared', so that
> may be one reason.

That’s the reason then, `--shared` was used.

> Note that non-ff updates are generally a bad thing for everyone who
> has work based on the affected branch.

We make it a policy to never base work off individual developer’s
branches precisely for this reason, because we’re often making
cleanups via rebase and such.

Thank you for the answer.

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Eric James Michael Ritz
Cyber Sprocket Labs
(843) 225-3830
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