How do I properly force a Git push?

 

I've set up a remote non-bare "main" repo and cloned it to my computer. I made some local changes, updated my local repository, and pushed the changes back to my remote repo. Things were fine up to that point.

Now, I had to change something in the remote repo. Then I changed something in my local repo. I realized that the change to the remote repo was not needed. So I tried to git push from my local repo to my remote repo, but I got an error like:

To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected Merge the remote changes before pushing again. See the 'Note about fast-forwards' section of git push --help for details.

I thought that probably a 

git push --force

would force my local copy to push changes to the remote one and make it the same. It does force the update , but when I go back to the remote repo and make a commit, I notice that the files contain outdated changes (ones that the main remote repo previously had).

As I mentioned in the comments to one of the answers:

[I] tried forcing, but when going back to master server to save the changes, i get outdated staging. Thus, when i commit the repositories are not the same. And when i try to use git push again, i get the same error.

How can I fix this issue?

Just do: 

git push origin <your_branch_name> --force

or if you have a specific repo: 

git push https://git.... --force

This will delete your previous commit(s) and push your current one.

It may not be proper, but if anyone stumbles upon this page, thought they might want a simple solution...

Short flag

Also note that -f is short for --force , so 

git push origin <your_branch_name> -f

will also work.

And if push --force doesn't work you can do push --delete . Look at 2nd line on this instance: 

git reset --hard HEAD~3  # reset current branch to 3 commits ago
git push origin master --delete  # do a very very bad bad thing
git push origin master  # regular push

But beware...

Never ever go back on a public git history!

In other words:

  • Don't ever force push on a public repository.
  • Don't do this or anything that can break someone's pull .
  • Don't ever reset or rewrite history in a repo someone might have already pulled.

    • Of course there are exceptionally rare exceptions even to this rule, but in most cases it's not needed to do it and it will generate problems to everyone else.

    Do a revert instead.

    And always be careful with what you push to a public repo . Reverting: 

    git revert -n HEAD~3..HEAD  # prepare a new commit reverting last 3 commits
git commit -m "sorry - revert last 3 commits because I was not careful"
git push origin master  # regular push

    In effect, both origin HEADs (from the revert and from the evil reset ) will contain the same files.

    edit to add updated info and more arguments around push --force

    Consider pushing force with lease instead of push, but still prefer revert

    Another problem push --force may bring is when someone push anything before you do, but after you've already fetched. If you push force your rebased version now you will replace work from others .

    git push --force-with-lease introduced in the git 1.8.5 (thanks to @VonC comment on the question) tries to address this specific issue. Basically, it will bring an error and not push if the remote was modified since your latest fetch.

    This is good if you're really sure a push --force is needed, but still want to prevent more problems. I'd go as far to say it should be the default push --force behaviour. But it's still far from being an excuse to force a push . People who fetched before your rebase will still have lots of troubles, which could be easily avoided if you had reverted instead.

    And since we're talking about git --push instances...

    Why would anyone want to force push?

    @linquize brought a good push force example on the comments: sensitive data . You've wrongly leaked data that shouldn't be pushed. If you're fast enough, you can "fix" * it by forcing a push on top.

    * The data will still be on the remote unless you also do a garbage collect, or clean it somehow. There is also the obvious potential for it to be spread by others who'd fetched it already, but you get the idea.

    First of all, I would not make any changes directly in the "main" repo. If you really want to have a "main" repo, then you should only push to it, never change it directly.

    Regarding the error you are getting, have you tried git pull from your local repo, and then git push to the main repo? What you are currently doing (if I understood it well) is forcing the push and then losing your changes in the "main" repo. You should merge the changes locally first.

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