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Subject: Re: How do you switch branches in a bare repo?
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> Perhaps non-fast-forwards are denied for a reason?
> 
> If not, then you can enable them by setting receive.denynonfastforwards to
> false in the bare repository.

Ah, that did the trick!  Although it was actually 
receive.denyNonFastforwards for me (adding the lowercase option had no 
effect, I had to edit the fancy-case version.)

But that allowed the push to work and I have gotten rid of my unwanted 
commits, so thanks a lot for your help!

Cheers,
Adam.