On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 09:48:26AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > 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? Yeah, I think that is OK. It is kind of clunky to read, but it contains all of the necessary information to lead the user in the right direction. -Peff -- 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