[vtk-developers] gerrit question

[Biddiscombe, John A.]

Apologies if two copies of this are sent. First one went wrong I think.

An intern here at CSCS has created a topic branch for paraview and one for VTK upon which the paraview one depends. I tried to push the VTK branch to gerrit to start the code review process. He’s leaving after tomorrow, so I’ll be the one doing the majority of maintenance going forwards. Other than registering his email to me as appears a possibility in the text below, is there another way in which I can push his branch and take over ownership without losing his identity as the person who made the commit. Right now it’s one huge commit which is a very long tree of commits squashed into a single new feature.

Tia

JB

$ git gerrit-push
Fetching gerrit master
Pushing to gerrit
Counting objects: 97, done.
Delta compression using up to 12 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (24/24), done.
Writing objects: 100% (63/63), 71.94 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 63 (delta 46), reused 51 (delta 39)
remote: Resolving deltas:  21% (10/46)
remote:
remote: ERROR:  In commit 13a053fd4232f6ccfee322cf2cbc759dc652d5d3
remote: ERROR:  committer email address nwaldin at cscs.ch<mailto:nwaldin at cscs.ch>
remote: ERROR:  does not match your user account.
remote: ERROR:
remote: ERROR:  The following addresses are currently registered:
remote: ERROR:    biddisco at cscs.ch<mailto:biddisco at cscs.ch>
remote: ERROR:
remote: ERROR:  To register an email address, please visit:
remote: ERROR:  http://review.source.kitware.com/#/settings/contact
remote:
remote:
error: failed to push some refs to 'biddisco at review.source.kitware.com<mailto:'biddisco at review.source.kitware.com>:VTK'
To biddisco at review.source.kitware.com<mailto:biddisco at review.source.kitware.com>:VTK
!       HEAD:refs/for/master/topic_new_transfer_function        [remote rejected] (invalid committer)