diff --git a/roles/aurweb/templates/aurweb-github-mirror.service.j2 b/roles/aurweb/templates/aurweb-github-mirror.service.j2
index 5fcb62594b05304865d93dd46346cdbd67e82fd7..7f4070cd6778d567bf46fe41ae567da89933394a 100644
--- a/roles/aurweb/templates/aurweb-github-mirror.service.j2
+++ b/roles/aurweb/templates/aurweb-github-mirror.service.j2
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 Type=oneshot
 User={{ aurweb_user }}
 WorkingDirectory={{ aurweb_git_dir }}
-ExecStart=git push --all git@github.com:archlinux/aur.git
+ExecStart=git push --force --all git@github.com:archlinux/aur.git