Merge branch 'jk/transfer-limit-redirection' into maint-2.3

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 7d90c3591567d10f9a075ec38048b93923f707d4..714638c5d625f370ce87f26b55375f874290ed95 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -559,20 +559,14 @@ static void set_ident_var(char **buf, char *val)
        *buf = val;
 }
 
-static char *envdup(const char *var)
-{
-       const char *val = getenv(var);
-       return val ? xstrdup(val) : NULL;
-}
-
 static void determine_author_info(struct strbuf *author_ident)
 {
        char *name, *email, *date;
        struct ident_split author;
 
-       name = envdup("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME");
-       email = envdup("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL");
-       date = envdup("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE");
+       name = xstrdup_or_null(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"));
+       email = xstrdup_or_null(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"));
+       date = xstrdup_or_null(getenv("GIT_AUTHOR_DATE"));
 
        if (author_message) {
                struct ident_split ident;
@@ -1056,7 +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);
 }