How do I force a subtree push to overwrite remote changes?

Question

We use a subtree deployment a lá this Gist to deploy a subdirectory of our Yeoman project. In our case, the branch is called production, not gh-pages.

Answer 1

There is a simpler solution

This always works for me.

1. Set up a bash script which helps you do the following:

cd dist
git init
git add .
git commit -am "deploy"
git push --force  master
rm -rf .git
cd ..

This creates a new git repository in the subdirectory you specify and force pushes everything from there.

2. profit