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

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From: "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx>
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.

Agreed.
Philip

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