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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-02-24 22:10:38 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2015-02-24 22:10:38 -0800 |
| commit | 7070c03d514a5519a3a4c9dbb47932d522dcb4bd (patch) | |
| tree | e5270015b4a100795164b1659a09ed763fa2b489 | |
| parent | 117c1b333da05e87a35ea73756518abe52407d84 (diff) | |
| parent | 1044b1f6a1a56ae723fd19cddd769380dc775f48 (diff) | |
| download | git-7070c03d514a5519a3a4c9dbb47932d522dcb4bd.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message' into maint
The error message from "git commit", when a non-existing author
name was given as value to the "--author=" parameter, has been
reworded to avoid misunderstanding.
* mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message:
commit: reword --author error message
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/commit.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c index 5cd1478ebf..714638c5d6 100644 --- a/builtin/commit.c +++ b/builtin/commit.c @@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ static const char *find_author_by_nickname(const char *name) clear_mailmap(&mailmap); return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL); } - die(_("No existing author found with '%s'"), name); + die(_("--author '%s' is not 'Name <email>' and matches no existing author"), name); } |