Merge branch 'mg/commit-author-no-match-malformed-message'

[git.git] / builtin / commit.c

diff --git a/builtin/commit.c b/builtin/commit.c
index 7f467133b88c10e2440c878a0218bee981b3acd7..6055c760f037617637eb7bffebe82213748b5e59 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);
 }