This page provides access to detailed explanations of Gerrit error messages. For each error message it is explained why the error is occurring and what can be done to solve it.
branch … not found
change … closed
change … does not belong to project …
change … not found
commit already exists
contains banned commit …
… has duplicates
invalid author
invalid Change-Id line format in commit message footer
invalid committer
missing Change-Id in commit message footer
missing subject; Change-Id must be in commit message footer
multiple Change-Id lines in commit message footer
no common ancestry
no new changes
non-fast forward
Not a Gerrit administrator
Not permitted to create …
not Signed-off-by author/committer/uploader in commit message footer
not valid ref
One or more refs/for/ names blocks change upload
Permission denied (publickey)
prohibited by Gerrit
Project not found: …
same Change-Id in multiple changes
too many commits
Upload denied for project ‘…’
you are not allowed to upload merges
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