>> What's weird about them? They are real messages issued exactly when they are described to be issued. > > The problem is surely that an explanatory line is needed to say that these are the diagnostic messages that occur in various cases. Its in 'ident.c'. I guess I'm just unfamiliar with the "Diagnostics" section of a man page. When I fall on this there's nothing I learn... all the other sections are helpful and providing self explanatory informations. In this case (diagnostic section), the first thing I see is "You don't exist, Go away!", and I'm like "okay..." then I see something about the passwd file (what on earth has git-commit-tree in common with passwd?) then I see "Your parents must have hated you!" and there I'm like "okay, there's definitly something wrong with this man page". I'm probably not the only one confused by this. I think a simple line "This tool might report the following error messages" would already be a great step forward. The next step would be to improve those error messages :) Philippe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html