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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
	Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Gunnar Wagner <gunnar.wagner@irisgermanica.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] commit: reword --author error message
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:53:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfvba1p07.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cR4vaYe+KiJthmpzo3p7JQyGgEDBqqLP0nBM3YjXXZywQ@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Fri, 16 Jan 2015 14:37:20 -0500")

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

> 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

Short and sweet ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-16 19:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13  8:15 commit --amend --author error Gunnar Wagner
2015-01-13 11:24 ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-14 12:09   ` Jeff King
2015-01-15 14:21     ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 14:23       ` [PATCH] commit: reword --author error message Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 14:25         ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 14:31         ` Jeff King
2015-01-15 14:40           ` Michael J Gruber
2015-01-15 17:48         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-16  9:32           ` Jeff King
2015-01-16 17:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-16 18:33               ` Philip Oakley
2015-01-16 18:35                 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-16 19:37                   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-01-16 19:53                     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-01-26 15:48                       ` [PATCHv2] " Michael J Gruber
2015-01-26 19:07                         ` Jeff King
2015-01-27  2:43                           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-01-27  2:45                             ` Jeff King
2015-01-27  8:37                               ` Philip Oakley
2015-01-27 12:22                           ` Ramsay Jones

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