Re: duplicate sign-off-by error

From: Sharib Khan <sak2109@columbia.edu>
Date: Feb 2, 2009, 20:16 UTC
Message-ID: <597340B9-A11E-4C69-8389-326D3777D9BA@columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200902021405.00562.bss@iguanasuicide.net>

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

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> 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>
>

but where are the commit messages stored - which file where i can find this is it the COMMIT_EDITMSG file ?

> 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.

series of operations is

1. change to the file
2. save the file
3. git commit -a -m "change message"

at which pt, i get the duplication error

is this something related to solaris or git crashing - the commit had worked earlier ?

thanks

sk

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