gerrit ban-commit
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NAME
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gerrit ban-commit - Bans a commit from a project's repository.

SYNOPSIS
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--
'ssh' -p <port> <host> 'gerrit ban-commit'
  [--reason <REASON>]
  <PROJECT>
  <COMMIT> ...
--

DESCRIPTION
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Marks a commit as banned for the specified repository.  If a commit is
banned Gerrit rejects every push that includes this commit with
link:error-contains-banned-commit.html[contains banned commit ...].

[NOTE]
This command just marks the commit as banned, but it does not remove
the commit from the history of any central branch.  This needs to be
done manually.

ACCESS
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Caller must be owner of the project or be a member of the privileged
'Administrators' group.

SCRIPTING
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This command is intended to be used in scripts.

OPTIONS
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<PROJECT>::
	Required; name of the project for which the commit should be
	banned.

<COMMIT>::
	Required; commit(s) that should be banned.

--reason::
	Reason for banning the commit.

EXAMPLES
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Ban commit `421919d015c062fd28901fe144a78a555d0b5984` from project
`myproject`:

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	$ ssh -p 29418 review.example.com gerrit ban-commit myproject \
	421919d015c062fd28901fe144a78a555d0b5984
====

GERRIT
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