Merge branch 'maint'

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 5cd1478ebfdae36a8112c7f93f9017b54954cf44..961e467242747dac07aa6f5e619e2d1a50570b06 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/commit.c
+++ b/builtin/commit.c
@@ -34,12 +34,12 @@
 #include "mailmap.h"
 
 static const char * const builtin_commit_usage[] = {
-       N_("git commit [options] [--] <pathspec>..."),
+       N_("git commit [<options>] [--] <pathspec>..."),
        NULL
 };
 
 static const char * const builtin_status_usage[] = {
-       N_("git status [options] [--] <pathspec>..."),
+       N_("git status [<options>] [--] <pathspec>..."),
        NULL
 };
 
@@ -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);
 }
 
 
@@ -1766,8 +1766,8 @@ int cmd_commit(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
        if (!transaction ||
            ref_transaction_update(transaction, "HEAD", sha1,
                                   current_head
-                                  ? current_head->object.sha1 : NULL,
-                                  0, !!current_head, sb.buf, &err) ||
+                                  ? current_head->object.sha1 : null_sha1,
+                                  0, sb.buf, &err) ||
            ref_transaction_commit(transaction, &err)) {
                rollback_index_files();
                die("%s", err.buf);