On 26/01/15 19:07, Jeff King wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 04:48:33PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>
>> - die(_("No existing author found with '%s'"), name);
>> + die(_("--author '%s': neither 'Name <email>' nor a match for an
>> existing author"), name);
>
> I had to add to the bikeshed, but I had to read this several times to
> make sense of it. It is grammatically:
>
> X [is] neither Y nor Z
>
> except that by eliding the verb ("is"), I somehow had trouble making
> sense of Z ("a match...") as a noun.
>
> I came up with:
>
> --author '%s': neither 'Name <email>' nor matches an existing author
>
> only to see that it was suggested earlier in the thread as a predecessor
> to this. ;)
>
> I wonder if adding back in the missing verb, rather than a colon, would
> also make more sense:
>
> --author '%s' is neither 'Name <email>' nor a match for an existing author
>
I usually don't like to add anything to the bikeshed, but ...
This sounds odd to me, so maybe:
--author '%s' is neither in the form of 'Name <email>' nor a match for an
existing author
although that is getting a bit long! :-D
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
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