title: Git push is failing with pre-receive hook declined
body: <p>From my origin, I have cloned 2 local repositories on my machine. The first repository works fine, but the second repository is not allowing me to perform any push. It fails with:  </p>
  
  <pre><code> ! [remote rejected]       DF-abc -&gt; DF-abc (pre-receive hook declined)
  error: failed to push some refs to 'git@gitlab.abc.net:myusername/PR.git'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have tried -f (force push)</p>
  
  <pre><code>git push -v --progress "origin" DF-abc:DF-abc
  </code></pre>