Re: duplicate sign-off-by error

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Feb 2, 2009, 20:04 UTC
Message-ID: <200902021405.00562.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <79FCCC4F-9C66-470E-AC32-8F3AE3C81EE9@columbia.edu>

On Monday 02 February 2009 11:22:36 Sharib Khan wrote:

> I m getting a Duplicate Sign-off by error when trying to commit to

the

> repository.
> I am using git 1.5.6 on solaris
>
> what is this error related to and how can it be resolved.

It's looking for lines in the commit message like:
Signed-off-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@uni.edu>

and seeing duplication.  Remove the duplication and try again.

If you can't see the duplication, please try to put together a series operations we can preform to reproduce your error.

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