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Problem Note 68403: You cannot access a remote branch in Git in SAS® Studio when the remote branch was created by a different user
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You are unable to access branches that other developers created, and remote branches might not be displayed in SAS Studio after cloning the repository. Also, when you attempt to check out a remote branch, the following error messages are issued in the SASStudio log:
ERROR: Return code from GIT is (4). cannot push because a reference that you are trying to update on the remote contains commits that are not present locally.
java.lang.Exception: ERROR: Return code from GIT is (4). cannot push non-fastforwardable reference
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Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS Studio | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro 32-bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 10 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Std | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Std | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2016 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2019 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Enterprise x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Home Premium x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Professional x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Linux for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.4 TS1M7 | |||