| Push fails due to commit message |
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| If Gerrit rejects pushing a commit it is often the case that there is |
| an issue with the commit message of the pushed commit. In this case |
| the problem can often be resolved by fixing the commit message. |
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| If the commit message of the last commit needs to be fixed you can |
| simply amend the last commit (please find a detailed description in |
| the link:http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-commit.html[Git documentation]): |
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| $ git commit --amend |
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| If you need to fix the commit messages of several commits or of any |
| commit other than the last one you have to do an interactive git |
| rebase for the affected commits. While doing the interactive rebase |
| you can e.g. choose 'reword' for those commits for which you want to |
| fix the commit messages. For a detailed description of git rebase |
| please check the link:http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-rebase.html[Git documentation]. |
| |
| Please use interactive git rebase with care as it rewrites existing |
| commits. Generally you should never rewrite commits that have already |
| been submitted in Gerrit. |
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| [[commit_hooks]] |
| Sometimes commit hooks are used to automatically insert/update |
| information in the commit message. If such information is missing in |
| the commit message of existing commits (e.g. because the commit hook |
| was only configured later) rewriting the commits will (re)execute the |
| commit hook and so update the commit messages. If you do an |
| interactive rebase to achieve this make sure that the affected |
| commits are really rewritten, e.g. by choosing 'reword' for all these |
| commits and then confirming all the commit messages. Just picking a |
| commit may not rewrite it. |
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| GERRIT |
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| Part of link:error-messages.html[Gerrit Error Messages] |
