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Re: Question with git push

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PHPeter Harris <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Date
Dec 23, 2008, 17:35 UTC
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On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Paul Vincent Craven wrote:
> If I do a 'git push' to another repository, my changes are reverted
> the next time that repository is updated, unless I do a hard reset on
> the remote repository first. Of course, then I would lose my changes
> in the remote repository. What is the correct way of handling this?

Pull from the other side, or push to a branch that you never check out. Better yet, push to a bare (no work tree) repo you can pull from both sides.

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b96f48bc9c925074be9f95c0fce69bcece5f6e73
Peter Harris
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