EGit on Eclipse: How to git push --force?

Question

I've run into a problem with my origin/branch being out of sync with my local branch, see below

When I try to PUSH from my local "staging" branch to the origin/staging branch I get the "rejected - non-fast-forward" error.

I use Eclipse with the EGit module on a windows PC.

From another post here I see that I can resolve my issue with the "git push --force origin staging" to over-ride the origin/staging branch with my local branch.

However, I don't see that option with EGit, and I don't see how to open a console in EGit to do this?

Does anyone know if I can do this within EGit?

OK - fixed my own issue. It appears I had issues with Commits that had not been Pushed back to origin/staging. Found an overview here on using the "git reset XXX : without --hard" which resets the branch marker, but keeps the local changes for later recommits.

Thanks, Jason

Answer 1

I have just come across a similar issue and here's what I did:

1. Team -> Push Branch <name of branch> ...
2. Force overwrite of branch on remote if it exists and has diverged