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authorMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>2015-04-20 14:09:07 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-04-20 11:06:10 -0700
commit0269f968b7effea8a4f61f1fb0ac7e9386a9d90c (patch)
treeb16adab6818608f864d94ed20487b5c81a9c86c0 /line-log.c
parentd349e0ee60e1bad1cf49245e402ca086ddb5ff80 (diff)
downloadgit-0269f968b7effea8a4f61f1fb0ac7e9386a9d90c.tar.gz
log -L: improve error message on malformed argumentmm/usage-log-l-can-take-regex
The old message did not mention the :regex:file form. To avoid overly long lines, split the message into two lines (in case item->string is long, it will be the only part truncated in a narrow terminal). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'line-log.c')
-rw-r--r--line-log.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/line-log.c b/line-log.c
index b7864ad586..1a6bc5921b 100644
--- a/line-log.c
+++ b/line-log.c
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ parse_lines(struct commit *commit, const char *prefix, struct string_list *args)
name_part = skip_range_arg(item->string);
if (!name_part || *name_part != ':' || !name_part[1])
- die("-L argument '%s' not of the form start,end:file",
+ die("-L argument not 'start,end:file' or ':funcname:file': %s",
item->string);
range_part = xstrndup(item->string, name_part - item->string);
name_part++;