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Re: How do you switch branches in a bare repo?

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Mar 12, 2010, 07:34 UTC
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Adam Nielsen schrieb:
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> Thanks for the suggestion!  Unfortunately it looks like I'm not allowed
> to do non-fast-forward pushes into my own repository because I keep
> getting this error:
> 
> error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/newbranch (you should pull
> first)
>  ! [remote rejected] newbranch~2 -> newbranch (non-fast-forward)
Perhaps non-fast-forwards are denied for a reason?

If not, then you can enable them by setting receive.denynonfastforwards to false in the bare repository.

-- Hannes
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