Michael J Gruber <g...@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes: > 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.
I suspect that you meant s/a valid/an invalid/, as if it is valid, it cannot not contain '>' (after all, '>' is merely a rough approximation to check if it is "Name <email>" format). > 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" You are trying to help a user who thought "Who www.where.com" was a valid thing to pass to --author; "it is not completely wellformed" is not very helpful without making her realize what in that bogus string is not "completely well-formed". Perhaps "--author '%s' is not 'Name <email>' and no existing author matches that string" or somesuch? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
