Currently, diffcore-pickaxe reports two distinct errors for the same user error: $ git log --pickaxe-regex -S'\1' fatal: invalid pickaxe regex: Invalid back reference $ git log -G'\1' # --pickaxe-regex is implied fatal: invalid log-grep regex: Invalid back reference Since the error has nothing to do with "log-grep", change the -G error message to match the -S error message. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- Sorry I couldn't do more. diffcore-pickaxe.c isn't at all easy to hack on, because there are so few tests guarding it. diffcore-pickaxe.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/diffcore-pickaxe.c b/diffcore-pickaxe.c index 63722f8..d69a7a2 100644 --- a/diffcore-pickaxe.c +++ b/diffcore-pickaxe.c @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static void diffcore_pickaxe_grep(struct diff_options *o) char errbuf[1024]; regerror(err, ®ex, errbuf, 1024); regfree(®ex); - die("invalid log-grep regex: %s", errbuf); + die("invalid pickaxe regex: %s", errbuf); } pickaxe(&diff_queued_diff, o, ®ex, NULL, diff_grep); -- 1.8.3.rc1.61.g2cacfff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html