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 and -S error messages to say "invalid regex". Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- diffcore-pickaxe.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/diffcore-pickaxe.c b/diffcore-pickaxe.c index 63722f8..c97ac9b 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 regex: %s", errbuf); } pickaxe(&diff_queued_diff, o, ®ex, NULL, diff_grep); @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static void diffcore_pickaxe_count(struct diff_options *o) char errbuf[1024]; regerror(err, ®ex, errbuf, 1024); regfree(®ex); - die("invalid pickaxe regex: %s", errbuf); + die("invalid regex: %s", errbuf); } regexp = ®ex; } else { -- 1.8.3.rc3.17.gd95ec6c.dirty -- 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