Thank you for this assessment. On Apr 7, 11:25 pm, Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / > > $ git push ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/srv/git/msysgit.git net-installer:mob > > To ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/srv/git/msysgit.git > > ! [rejected] net-installer -> mob (non-fast forward) > > error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/srv/git/ > > msysgit.git' > > It means that your push would irrevokably overwrite part of the history, > because what is currently there is not in the history you want to push (it > is no ancestor, and therefore the push would not result in a > fast-forward).
I believe my problem was that my "net-installer" branch was based on "origin/master", however I should have used "origin/mob". I did git rebase -onto origin/mob master net-installer and git push ssh://... net-installer:mob to successfully up the remote mob branch. Best regards, Clifford Caoile
