From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 02:43:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] commit: reword --author error message
Message-ID: <xmqqlhkplz8d.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150126190711.GA13582@peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> 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?