git push rejected: error: failed to push some refs
Solution 1
git push -f
if you have permission, but that will screw up anyone else who pulls from that repo, so be careful.
If that is denied, and you have access to the server, as canzar says below, you can allow this on the server with
git config receive.denyNonFastForwards false
Solution 2
If you are the only the person working on the project, what you can do is:
git checkout master
git push origin +HEAD
This will set the tip of origin/master to the same commit as master (and so delete the commits between 41651df and origin/master)
Solution 3
Just do
git pull origin [branch]
and then you should be able to push.
If you have commits on your own and didn't push it the branch yet, try
git pull --rebase origin [branch]
and then you should be able to push.
Read more about handling branches with Git.
Solution 4
'remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first)'
That message suggests that there is a hook on the server that is rejecting fast forward pushes. Yes, it is usually not recommended and is a good guard, but since you are the only person using it and you want to do the force push, contact the administrator of the repo to allow to do the non-fastforward push by temporarily removing the hook or giving you the permission in the hook to do so.
Solution 5
for me following worked, just ran these command one by one
git pull -r origin master
git push -f origin your_branch
Eric
Updated on June 04, 2020Comments
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Eric almost 4 years
I know people have asked similar questions, but I believe the causes of their problems to be different. I did a hard reset because I had messed up my code pretty bad
git reset --hard 41651df8fc9
I've made quite some changes, I've made some commits and now that I'm trying to push all these commits into the server I get the following error:
! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward) error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]'
Git suggests to do a git pull and that's what other people have suggested to other users. However, I believe that a git pull will merge my current code with the code that I don't want anymore (head revision). How can I do a push and forget about the version/revisions ahead of me?
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Eric about 12 yearsI guess I don't have permission 'remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first)' I'm the only one working on this repo at the moment, so I'm not worried about any other branches or anything. Any ideas?
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Eric about 12 yearswill this get rid of the code that I don't want anymore and keep my new code? (sorry if it's a dumb answer)
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Tim about 12 yearsIf you are the only person own this repo, just use
git push -f
, which will use your current repo replace the remote one. If there are multi users development, fast-forward is essential, otherwise, it will very easy happen distaste . -
ouah about 12 yearsthis will set the tip of origin/master to the same commit as master (and so delete the commits between 41651df and origin/master)
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Tim about 12 yearsUpdate the origin repository’s master branch with the your current HEAD located branch, allowing non-fast-forward updates. So, this is the same with
git push HEAD -f
. For me, I think, you can use a more gentle way to do this, first, usegit fetch
, after that, usegit rebase -i origin/master
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torek about 12 yearsIf you can log in on the remote, you can go right into the bare git repo and manually rewind the branch, with
git branch -f
, e.g.,git branch -f rewind_the_one_I_broke 8120307
for example. You can rungit log
in a bare repo to find the reset-point. Note that this has the same effect as agit push -f
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torek about 12 yearsOr, have the admin run
git branch -f
, which has the same effect but does not require fussing about with the pre-receive hook. -
Seanny123 over 10 yearsAHHHH. SHOULD HAVE READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE RUNNING THE COMMAND.
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canzar almost 10 yearsIf you have access to the bare repository, you can temporarily update your repository configuration with
git config receive.denyNonFastForwards false
. I found mine was set totrue
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Johnny Utahh almost 9 years@canzar the
git config receive.denyNonFastForwards false
is required for some of mygit push --force
commands to work. Thanks for the reference. -
user2568374 over 5 yearsfatal: Couldn't find remote ref [branch]
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ASH almost 3 yearsthis solved my issue. The main issue I had was that I changed the default branch name manually then things started falling apart. These commands solved my issue. thanks!
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cwiggo over 2 yearsI had to do this to revert to a list commit e.g.
git revert --hard 010d3....,
then callgit push origin branch -f