|  | 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. | 
|  |  | 
|  | 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 ...". | 
|  |  | 
|  | 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] them onto a clean base and push | 
|  | them again. | 
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|  | GERRIT | 
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|  | Part of link:error-messages.html[Gerrit Error Messages] |