The repo is too large under a VPN which is way too slow, I want to overwrite origin/master with upstream/master without fetching/pulling down to my local env.
Is there any git command that can do something like this:
# to push branch upstream/master to origin/master forcely
git push -f upstream/master origin/master
Any help will be appreciated.
If :
then you can ssh to that server and push to other server / pull from the other server :
# a convenient way is to create a named remote, and then fetch or pull :
git remote add upstream <ssh url to other git repo>
git fetch upstream main
# inspect your repo ...
git reset --hard upstream/main
# or :
git push --force upstream main:main
You can actually do it without changing the configuration :
git fetch <ssh url from other repo> main
# you inspect the state of your repo using 'git log', the branch you just
# fetched can be accessed through FETCH_HEAD
git reset --hard FETCH_HEAD
# or :
git push --force <ssh url from other repo> main
If you can, I would suggest to log into the fetching server, as you can inspect and revert more freely your actions locally.
Emphasis on "user who owns the repo locally" :
since your actions will lead to writing files in the local .git/ directory, you don't want to mess with the access rights within that directory.
In particular : if you act as root, you could end up having files owned by root under .git/, which would make later regular actions fail randomly because they can't modify target files.