On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 03:23:08PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> If an --author argument is specified but does not contain a '>' then git tries
> to find the argument within the exiting authors; and gives the error
> message "No existing author found with '%s'" if there is no match.
>
> This is confusing for users who try to specify a valid complete author
> name.
>
> Rename the error message to make it clearer that the failure has two
> reasons in this case:
> "Bad --author parameter '%s': neither completely wellformed nor part of
> an existing one"
I really like the intent of this patch, but I actually find the new
message even more confusing.
Is this a time when we could use hint() to give a multi-line explanation
(and probably a matching advice.* config)? Like:
hint: If the --author parameter contains angle brackets ("<>"), it
hint: is treated as a literal name/email pair to use. If not, then
hint: the history is searched for an existing matching author.
or something?
-Peff
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