# Gerrit Code Review - Error Messages

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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.

## Error Messages

- branch … not found

- change … closed

- change … does not belong to project …

- change … not found

- contains banned commit …

- … has duplicates

- invalid Change-Id line format in commit message

- missing Change-Id in commit message

- multiple Change-Id lines in commit message

- no changes made

- no common ancestry

- no new changes

- non-fast forward

- Not a Gerrit administrator

- not a Gerrit project

- Not permitted to create …

- not Signed-off-by author/committer/uploader

- not valid ref

- One or more refs/for/ names blocks change upload

- Permission denied (publickey)

- prohibited by Gerrit

- squash commits first

- Upload denied for project '…'

- you are not allowed to upload merges

- you are not author …

- you are not committer …

## General Hints

- push fails due to commit message

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