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Subject: Re: How do you switch branches in a bare repo?
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Adam Nielsen schrieb:
> Thanks for the suggestion!  Unfortunately it looks like I'm not allowed
> to do non-fast-forward pushes into my own repository because I keep
> getting this error:
> 
> error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/newbranch (you should pull
> first)
>  ! [remote rejected] newbranch~2 -> newbranch (non-fast-forward)

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.

-- Hannes