Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> 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.
Indeed it is clunky and not in the usual format.
This might be better, perhaps?
die(_("--author '%s': not 'Name <email>' and matches no existing author"));
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