gerrit/Documentation/error-not-signed-off-by.txt
Fredrik Luthander b295eea8b6 Access control documentation: Forge identity
This change divides the old forge identity section into three new
sections, one for each of author, committer and server identities.
The previous scale of permissions is now replaced by three
individual permissions not dependant on each other.

Some generic text about forging identities is copied to all three
sections to increase the ease of use when using this page as a quick
lookup reference page.

Change-Id: Iff04dea2711560baf3d2f4454b1206dcac775a4c
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Luthander <fredrik.luthander@sonyericsson.com>
2012-01-20 16:46:51 +01:00

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not Signed-off-by author/committer/uploader
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Projects in Gerrit can be configured to require a link:user-signedoffby.html#Signed-off-by[Signed-off-by] in
the commit message to enforce that every change is signed by the
author, committer or uploader. If for a project a Signed-off-by is
required and the commit message does not contain it, Gerrit rejects
to push the commit with this error message.
This policy can be bypassed by having the access right
link:access-control.html#category_forge_committer['Forge Committer'].
This error may happen for different reasons if you do not have the
access right to forge the committer identity:
. missing Signed-off-by in the commit message
. Signed-off-by is contained in the commit message but it's neither
from the author, committer nor uploader
. Signed-off-by from the author, committer or uploader is contained
in the commit message but not in the last paragraph
To be able to push your commits you have to update the commit
messages as explained link:error-push-fails-due-to-commit-message.html[here] so that they contain a Signed-off-by from
the author, committer or uploader in the last paragraph. However it
is important that you only add a Signed-off-by if you understand the
semantics of the link:user-signedoffby.html#Signed-off-by[Signed-off-by] and the commit applies to the rules
that are connected with this footer.
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