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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
To: Sharib Khan <sak2109@columbia.edu>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: duplicate sign-off-by error
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 14:04:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902021405.00562.bss@iguanasuicide.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79FCCC4F-9C66-470E-AC32-8F3AE3C81EE9@columbia.edu>

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On Monday 02 February 2009 11:22:36 Sharib Khan wrote:
> I m getting a Duplicate Sign-off by error when trying to commit to 
the
> repository.
> I am using git 1.5.6 on solaris
>
> what is this error related to and how can it be resolved.

It's looking for lines in the commit message like:
Signed-off-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@uni.edu>

and seeing duplication.  Remove the duplication and try again.

If you can't see the duplication, please try to put together a series 
operations we can preform to reproduce your error.
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 17:22 duplicate sign-off-by error Sharib Khan
2009-02-02 20:04 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]
2009-02-02 20:16   ` Sharib Khan
2009-02-02 20:28     ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

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