From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 19:37:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: reword --author error message
Message-ID: <CAPig+cR4vaYe+KiJthmpzo3p7JQyGgEDBqqLP0nBM3YjXXZywQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbnly376a.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org> writes:
>
>>     die(_("--author '%s': not 'Name <email>', nor matches any existing
>> author"));
>
> Sounds good.  Thanks.

To further bikeshed (particularly if "nor" is in the mix):

    neither 'Name <email>' nor a match for an existing author