Re: [boost] [git] The any library does not pull cleanly because of a forced update on develop and master.

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] The any library does not pull cleanly because of a forced update on develop and master.
From: Ahmed Charles (acharles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-10 02:43:46

> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:37:37 +0400
> From: antoshkka_at_[hidden]
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] [git] The any library does not pull cleanly because of a forced update on develop and master.
> 
> 2013/12/10 Cox, Michael <mhcox_at_[hidden]>
> 
> > I tried to update my local repositories to the latest changes in each
> > submodule:
> >
> >      git pull; git submodule foreach --recursive git pull
> >
> > When it got to the libs/any submodule, I got the following message:
> >
> 
> You'll be getting the same messages during pull of conversion, variant,
> circular_buffer libraries. *If there is no changes in your local repo that
> must be saved*, you can try the following:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125968/force-git-to-overwrite-local-files-on-pull
> 
> As I understand, command to do so for all submodules will be (!removes all
> local changes!):
> 
> git submodule foreach --recursive 'git checkout develop && git fetch --all
> && git reset --hard origin/develop && git checkout master && git fetch
> --all && git reset --hard origin/master'
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Just curious, what was the motivation for the non-fast-forward push?