Git Force Push Branch

I had a problem where I want to push my branch and overwrite what was the on the server.

I kept receiving an error telling me to merge. I did not want to merge and found a way to force push a branch.

In general you don’t want to do this unless you absolutely have to.

git push -f origin <branch>

This Stackoverflow question and answers helped me.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10298291/cannot-push-to-github-keeps-saying-need-merge