A third approach is to add the -f switch to the push and force your local project’s commit history onto the remote GitLab repo. git push -u -f origin master However, GitLab branch protection rules ...

However, a GitLab push to origin requires user authentication ... Linux and the cloud-hosted GitLab offering. The source code and sample project used for these examples can be found on the gitlab-made ...

Push mirroring was originally introduced as a paid feature, but GitLab says it is one of the ... they will be able to ship better and safer code.