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Re: push to backup repo periodically fails with "not fast forward"

From
David Copeland <davetron5000@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 22, 2008, 17:15 UTC
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the original gets rebased from a git svn rebase on occasion; so I guess that is causing things to not be fast-forward.

I guess all I really want to do is keep a duplicate copy of my repo somewhere else. Should I just use --force in my hook, or abandon git as the mechanism and use rsync?

Dave

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:24 PM, davetron5000 <davetron5000@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a repo on another disk that I ONLY use to backup my in-use
>> local repo.  I have a post-commit hook that does the push (git push --
>> all remote-repo-name)
>>
>>>git commit -a -m 'some change'
>> Counting objects: 71, done.
>> Compressing objects: 100% (26/26), done.
>> Writing objects: 100% (29/29), 2.31 KiB, done.
>> Total 29 (delta 12), reused 0 (delta 0)
>> Unpacking objects: 100% (29/29), done.
>> To file:///Volumes/Git/pose/main
>>   22d7f10..0037aaf  bimonthly-frequency -> bimonthly-frequency
>>  ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast forward)
>> error: failed to push some refs to 'file:///Volumes/Git/pose/main'
>> Created commit 0037aaf: Removed assertion that made no sense.
>>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> I'm using git as a front-end to Subversion, but I can't figure out why
>> this is happening.
>>
>> The repo at /Volumes/Git/pose/main is NEVER pulled from or pushed to
>> by anything other than my hook.  I can't understand why any push to it
>> would NOT be a fast-forward.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can figure out what's going on?
>
> Do you rebase your original repo?
>
> --
> Felipe Contreras
>
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