How to fix the pushing rejected and asked to pull when pulling results in “everything is up to date”?

Question

Using EGit with Eclipse when I try to push my code into the remote repository I get an error message saying that I should pull first, as shown in Figure 1.

Answer 1

Make sure that:

• you are using the latest version of EGit (2.3+)
• you have stashed/commit everything before pulling (as in this thread)
• you are not in a detached head mode (as in "can't push upstream using EGit")

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The OP Krige adds:

in the end I noticed a class file was mentioned in the DIRTY_WORKTREE error message.
I deleted that file from the file system, did a pull, resolved the conflicts and pushed.
Everything seems to work fine now.

Answer 2

If you have the DIRTY_WORKTREE issue and you are not able to delete the file (for whatever reasons), you should do a pull, or replace with HEAD and then add to Index. This will resolve the conflicts (assuming use of the merge tool) and you should then be able to commit/push your changes, or else pull again.