From: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
Subject: Re: improve error message with malformed `author' in got.conf
To: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2022 14:08:33 +0100

On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 12:44:21PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> With the following diff instead I would get
> 
> % got ci regular-file
> got: foobar: an email address is required for compatibility with Git

I like it. ok stsp@

I would tweak your error message slightly for clarity of context:

 got: foobar: commit author's email address is required for compatibility with Git