On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 06:43:46PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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 <email>' nor a match for an existing author > > Then > > > --author '%s' is not 'Name <email>' and matches no existing author > > would be the shortest, sweetest and hopefully grammatical, perhaps? Yes, that one make perfect sense to me. -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