git push rejected error failed to push some refs

Question

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 - gt  master  non-fast-forward  error  failed to push some refs to  git git somewhere git    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

User · Answer

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)

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

I did the following steps to resolve the issue  On the branch which was giving me the error    git pull origin  branch-name  lt current branch gt   After pulling  got some merge issues  solved them  pushed the changes to the same branch  Created the Pull request with the pushed branch    tada  My changes were reflecting  all of them

User · Answer

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

User · Answer

for me following worked  just ran these command one by one  git pull -r origin master git push -f origin your branch

User · Answer

What I did to solve the problem was   git pull origin  branch  git push origin  branch    Also make sure that you are pointing to the right branch by running   git remote set-url origin  url

[git] git push rejected: error: failed to push some refs

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