Change the author of last commit in Git(pushed remotely)

Question

I am trying to change the author name of last commit. As mentioned in Change commit author at one specific commit, I am executing git commit --amend --author="Author Name <email@address.com>" command.
In my git log I can see that name and email have been changed.
But when I am executing git push -f, it is giving me following error

remote: To prevent you from losing history, non-fast-forward updates were rejected.
! [remote rejected] dev -> dev (pre-receive hook declined)

Any idea how can i push this.

Thanks,
Shantanu

Try to update your local branch using `git pull` or `git rebase` first. — Matthias J. Sax, Jul 08 '15 at 20:22
Did you compare remote and local log? You can check remote log via `git log remotename/branchname`. There should be some conflict showing up. — Matthias J. Sax, Jul 08 '15 at 20:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '15 at 20:56

Your remote server is preventing the push. You need to (temporarily) configure it to permit pushing non-fast-forward changes for that branch to achieve what you want. How you do that depends on which server you are using; for example, if it's a bare Git repository on a server you can change it with git config receive.denyNonFastForwards false.

Change the author of last commit in Git(pushed remotely)

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