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 ' nor a match for an
>> existing author"), name);
>
> I had to add to the bikeshed, bu
From: "Jeff King"
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 06:43:46PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Jeff King writes:
> ... I somehow had trouble making
> sense of Z ("a match...") as a noun.
> I wonder if adding back in the missing verb, rather than a colon,
> would
> also make more sense:
>
> --author
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 06:43:46PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Jeff King writes:
>
> > ... I somehow had trouble making
> > sense of Z ("a match...") as a noun.
>
> > I wonder if adding back in the missing verb, rather than a colon, would
> > also make more sense:
> >
> > --author '%s' is
Jeff King writes:
> ... I somehow had trouble making
> sense of Z ("a match...") as a noun.
> I wonder if adding back in the missing verb, rather than a colon, would
> also make more sense:
>
> --author '%s' is neither 'Name ' nor a match for an existing author
Then
> --author '%s' is not
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 ' 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 se
If an --author argument is specified but does not contain a '>' then git tries
to find the argument within the existing 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.
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