Cannot push after BFG Repo-Cleaner

Question

We have a self-hosted Gitlab instance.

I used BFG-Repo-Cleaner and everything went well, but when I try to push changes I get this:

remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to force push code to a protected branch on this project.

P.S. I'm owner of the project. Earlier I made fork of this project and I had no problems pushing changes there.

Answer 1

I assume you know what you are doing and you really want to force a push. GitLab disallows a forced push to the master branch by default. You can remove that protection. Click the cogwheel icon in your project and select Protected branches. Then click the Unprotect button for the master branch. The forced push will work then.