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

> > 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?