Re: duplicate sign-off-by error

From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Feb 2, 2009, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID: <200902021428.11084.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <597340B9-A11E-4C69-8389-326D3777D9BA@columbia.edu>

On Monday 02 February 2009 14:16:30 you wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > 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

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> > the
> >> repository.
> >> I am using git 1.5.6 on solaris
> > It's looking for lines in the commit message like:
> > Signed-off-by: Joe Hacker <jhacker@uni.edu>
> but where are the commit messages stored - which file where i can

find

> this
> is it the COMMIT_EDITMSG file ?

Usually.

> > If you can't see the duplication, please try to put together a

series

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> > operations we can preform to reproduce your error.
>
> series of operations is
>
> 1. change to the file
> 2. save the file
> 3. git commit -a -m "change message"

This is *not* what I asked for. I asked for a series of operations *we* can perform to *reproduce* your error. If I do this here, it works (no error). The best way to give what I asked for is to start the series of operations with "git init" in an empty directory, but that's not the only way.

What if you just "git commit -a" as step 3? What is "the file"?

> is this something related to solaris or git crashing - the commit

had

> worked earlier ?

Possibly. I can't look into it that much until I can reproduce it here.

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