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"
(This codepath is touched only when we know already that the argument
cannot be a completely wellformed author ident.)
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/commit.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 7d90c35..851e2c5 100644
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@ static const char *find_author_by_nickname(const char *name)
clear_mailmap(&mailmap);
return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
}
- die(_("No existing author found with '%s'"), name);
+ die(_("Bad --author parameter '%s': neither completely wellformed nor part of an existing one"), name);
}
--
2.3.0.rc0.202.g6f441c7
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