Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally. That is the error message you may get from git when you try to push your changes to the remote repository. Here is how to solve the problem of trying to commit to a git repository after you made changes but then someone else already committed ahead of you. Another way to look at this is that you forgot to perform a

How to setup git repository 11 steps you need to follow to setup a git repository privately as a non root user on linux. I am going to cover how to do this on a RedHat Enterprise Linux Server as this is a very common OS for companies needing service level agreements. This guide assumes that git is already installed on the network, and that it is accessible from the user you are using on the machine you want to perform the setup on.

Here is how you clone an old version in git You can also use this method to clone a specific commit in a git project. In this example I needed to get a previous version of one library in git that is a dependency for another supporting library. Often what happens is new development is taking place, and one library may have commits that are not compatible with another library.