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Problem: cla bot is failing without printing a message

Evan Bruhn edited this page Jan 8, 2019 · 1 revision

Problem - cla-bot is failing without printing a message

You may notice your PR or others will have a failed check for CLA bot, but without any message prompting the user to sign the CLA.

This occurs when a user has committed using an e-mail that is not tied to their github account. Commonly, it occurs when a user has committed with their GE e-mail on github account linked with their gmail/hotmail/etc.

If a user has done this, instruct them to rebase their commits using their correct e-mail.

If you've done this (tisk), then do the following:

Amend last commit

If your PR has only one commit, you can just amend your last commit and force push.

git commit --amend --author="Your Name Here <[email protected]>" --no-edit
git push -f

If your PR has multiple commits, perform an interactive rebase. Stack overflow has you covered.

Please make sure you're doing this on your branch, and not on master.