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From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: push to backup repo periodically fails with "not fast forward"
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:19:26 +0200
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:15 PM, David Copeland <davetron5000@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

I would manually do 'git push backup' at certain points since not all
my commits are meant to be backed up, specially on temporal feature
branches.

But --force should do the trick.

-- 
Felipe Contreras