Can someone please provide a simple example of what would cause a Git push to a central repo to fail because a fast forward could not occur? What would the local repo vs the central repo's state need to look like in order for this to occur? Really having trouble visualizing this...
What does it mean that a Git push can not be fast foward merged?
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I assume you're seeing this problem:
Here's how the “non-fast-forward updates were rejected” problem happens.
Let's say Alice and Bob are working on a project. They each have a repository, and there's a central repository they both push to and pull from. Initially, the three repositories look like this:
Now Alice and Bob both do some work. Each commits a different change to their local repository:
Next, Alice pushes her change to the central repo:
Next, Bob tries to push. The central repo's master branch points at commit 3. Bob's push tries to update it to point at commit 4. Since commit 4 doesn't have commit 3 as an ancestor, a merge is required, but
git push
doesn't do real merges. It only does “fast-forwards”, where the new master has the old master as an ancestor. So Bob gets the error because he's trying to push something that requires a real merge, not a fast-forward.To push successfully, Bob has to first fetch the new commit from the central repo:
and he has to merge his changes (commit #4) with Alice's changes (commit #3), creating a new commit that has both commits as ancestors:
The fetch and merge can be done in two commands (
git fetch
followed bygit merge
) or in one command (git pull
).Now Bob can push successfully, because the central repo sees that the new master has the old master as an ancestor.
Notice that now Alice is missing Bob's commits. If she makes more commits to her repo and tries to push before pulling from the central repo, she'll get the non-fast-forward error, and she'll have to fetch and merge to fix it, just like Bob did.