Re: [PATCHv2] commit: reword --author error message

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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
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