NAME

gerrit ban-commit - Bans a commit from a project’s repository.

SYNOPSIS

ssh -p <port> <host> gerrit ban-commit
  [--reason <REASON>]
  <PROJECT>
  <COMMIT> …

DESCRIPTION

Marks a commit as banned for the specified repository. If a commit is banned Gerrit rejects every push that includes this commit with contains banned commit ….

Note
 This command just marks the commit as banned, but it does not remove the commit from the history of any central branch. This needs to be done manually.

ACCESS

Caller must be owner of the project or be a member of the privileged Administrators group.

SCRIPTING

This command is intended to be used in scripts.

OPTIONS

<PROJECT>

Required; name of the project for which the commit should be banned.

<COMMIT>

Required; commit(s) that should be banned.

--reason

Reason for banning the commit.

EXAMPLES

Ban commit 421919d015c062fd28901fe144a78a555d0b5984 from project myproject:

$ ssh -p 29418 review.example.com gerrit ban-commit myproject \
421919d015c062fd28901fe144a78a555d0b5984

Part of Gerrit Code Review