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Asked: 2026-06-11T18:23:34+00:00

I rewrote the tree to my git repository to fix errors in the author

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I rewrote the tree to my git repository to fix errors in the author name and email address. Now I’m trying to push the fixed tree to my repo on Source Forge. CharlesB told me how to update the config file on the Source Forge servers. My config file looks like this:

[codeguru@shell-24003 bbct]$ cat config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = true
        sharedrepository = 2
[receive]
        denyNonFastforwards = false

Now when I try to force a push, I get the following error:

$ git push -f
Password:
Counting objects: 464, done.
Delta compression using up to 2 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (148/148), done.
Writing objects: 100% (452/452), 470.65 KiB, done.
Total 452 (delta 268), reused 417 (delta 247)
remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first)
To ssh://codeguru@git.code.sf.net/p/bbct/code
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://codeguru@git.code.sf.net/p/bbct/code'

What’s going on here? More importantly, how do I fix it?

Update:

Running git push -f on a public campus computer gives the same error message as above.

Another Update:

I cloned the SF repo to a temporary folder, reset this temporary repo’s master branch to the commit just before the first commit with the wrong author and email, then ran git push -f. I get the exact same error message as with my original repo:

$ git push -f
Password:
Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: denying non-fast-forward refs/heads/master (you should pull first)
To ssh://codeguru@git.code.sf.net/p/bbct/code
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://codeguru@git.code.sf.net/p/bbct/code'

I guess SF really doesn’t want me doing a non-fast-forward commit here 🙁

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  1. Editorial Team

    Well, this was in fact a SourceForge issue, and perhaps a user error as well. In the SF shell, I originally edited the config file for my project under the /home/scm_git directory. After submitting a ticket to SF, I found out that the correct directory is /home/git instead. After editing the config file in the correct subdirectory for my project, I forced a push and updated the master branch successfully.

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