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Re: Unable to remove a file

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John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Date
Oct 4, 2011, 10:24 UTC
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2011/10/4 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>: [snip]

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>> git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm -q --ignore-unmatch --cached
>> scripts/\\' HEAD
>> Rewrite 5ac83187fa298add60cf81fd1d54b194da7ae783 (57/57)
>> Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten
>> git push
>>  ! [rejected]        master ->  master (non-fast-forward)
>> error: failed to push some refs to 'git@myserver:repository'
>>
>> Should I do anything special?
>
> git push -f

I assume you understand that you're rewriting history Robert, and that has some consequences? You're master branch is now divergent, since the commit ids changed.

-John
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  1. robert menaOct 3, 2011
  2. Andreas SchwabOct 3, 2011
  3. robert menaOct 3, 2011
  4. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekOct 4, 2011
  5. John SzakmeisterOct 4, 2011
  6. robert menaOct 4, 2011
  7. Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-SzmekOct 4, 2011
  8. Andreas SchwabOct 4, 2011

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