[Bioperl-l] Regarding git commits...

[Jay Hannah]

On May 20, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Chris Fields wrote:
> Please make sure to update your local git repos prior to doing commits and pushing to master

I thought git refused to push if your local was out of date? (I thought this was one of the general selling points of git?)  It seems to be doing that to me, below.

Jay Hannah
http://biodoc.ist.unomaha.edu/wiki/User:Jhannah


jhannah at jaysnet-MacBook:~/src/sandbox$ git push
To git at github.com:jhannah/sandbox.git
 ! [rejected]        master -> master (non-fast-forward)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git at github.com:jhannah/sandbox.git'
To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected
Merge the remote changes before pushing again.  See the 'Note about
fast-forwards' section of 'git push --help' for details.