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

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 5cd1478ebfdae36a8112c7f93f9017b54954cf44..714638c5d625f370ce87f26b55375f874290ed95 100644 (file)
--- 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);
 }