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 | = contains banned commit ... | 
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 | With this error message Gerrit rejects to push a commit that is | 
 | banned or that would merge in an ancestor that is banned. | 
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 | If a commit was identified as a bad commit (e.g. because it contains | 
 | coding that violates intellectual property) and because of this it | 
 | was removed from the central git repository it can be marked as | 
 | banned. Gerrit will then prevent that this commit ever enters the | 
 | repository again by rejecting every push of such a commit with the | 
 | error message "contains banned commit ...". | 
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 | If you have commits that you want to push that are based on a banned | 
 | commit you may want to link:http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-cherry-pick.html[cherry-pick,role=external,window=_blank] them onto a clean base and push | 
 | them again. | 
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