diff --git a/pre_commit_hooks/requirements_txt_fixer.py b/pre_commit_hooks/requirements_txt_fixer.py
index 5884394..261acc9 100644
--- a/pre_commit_hooks/requirements_txt_fixer.py
+++ b/pre_commit_hooks/requirements_txt_fixer.py
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
         elif requirement.value == b'\n':
             return False
         else:
+            # if 2 requirements have the same name, the one with comments
+            # needs to go first (so that when removing duplicates, the one
+            # with comments is kept)
+            if self.name == requirement.name:
+                return bool(self.comments) > bool(requirement.comments)
             return self.name < requirement.name
 
     def is_complete(self) -> bool:
@@ -113,10 +118,14 @@
         if req.value != b'pkg-resources==0.0.0\n'
     ]
 
+    # sort the requirements and remove duplicates
+    prev = None
     for requirement in sorted(requirements):
         after.extend(requirement.comments)
         assert requirement.value, requirement.value
-        after.append(requirement.value)
+        if prev is None or requirement.value != prev.value:
+            after.append(requirement.value)
+            prev = requirement
     after.extend(rest)
 
     after_string = b''.join(after)
diff --git a/tests/requirements_txt_fixer_test.py b/tests/requirements_txt_fixer_test.py
index b725afa..c400be1 100644
--- a/tests/requirements_txt_fixer_test.py
+++ b/tests/requirements_txt_fixer_test.py
@@ -68,6 +68,12 @@
             b'f<=2\n'
             b'g<2\n',
         ),
+        (b'a==1\nb==1\na==1\n', FAIL, b'a==1\nb==1\n'),
+        (
+            b'a==1\nb==1\n#comment about a\na==1\n',
+            FAIL,
+            b'#comment about a\na==1\nb==1\n',
+        ),
         (b'ocflib\nDjango\nPyMySQL\n', FAIL, b'Django\nocflib\nPyMySQL\n'),
         (
             b'-e git+ssh://git_url@tag#egg=ocflib\nDjango\nPyMySQL\n',