How to force push a reset to remote repository?

Question

Our remote master branch somehow got messed up. Current development code is on the master branch along with the latest commits. Obviously, the development code is not ready

Answer 1

For me, @svick 's hint pointed in the right direction. Since the git server I wanted to modify is actually my box, I logged into it and did a git config --global receive.denynonfastforwards false to change all repos to accept a forced non-ff push. Didn't work out of the box. What I found was that in the config there already was receive.denynonfastforwards=true set, and it couldn't be erased with git config --global --unset receive.denynonfastforwards. Doing the edit in the repo manually (vi config) worked, though.