Instead of dying there, let the caller high up in the callchain notice the error and handle it (by dying, still). The function sequencer_pick_revisions() has only two callers, cmd_revert() and cmd_cherry_pick(), both of which check the return value and react appropriately upon errors. So this is a safe conversion to make sequencer_pick_revisions() callable from new callers that want it not to die, without changing the external behaviour of anything existing. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 3804fa9..76b1c52 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -1063,10 +1063,11 @@ int sequencer_pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts) if (!get_sha1(name, sha1)) { if (!lookup_commit_reference_gently(sha1, 1)) { enum object_type type = sha1_object_info(sha1, NULL); - die(_("%s: can't cherry-pick a %s"), name, typename(type)); + return error(_("%s: can't cherry-pick a %s"), + name, typename(type)); } } else - die(_("%s: bad revision"), name); + return error(_("%s: bad revision"), name); } /* @@ -1082,10 +1083,10 @@ int sequencer_pick_revisions(struct replay_opts *opts) !opts->revs->cmdline.rev->flags) { struct commit *cmit; if (prepare_revision_walk(opts->revs)) - die(_("revision walk setup failed")); + return error(_("revision walk setup failed")); cmit = get_revision(opts->revs); if (!cmit || get_revision(opts->revs)) - die("BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk"); + return error("BUG: expected exactly one commit from walk"); return single_pick(cmit, opts); } -- 2.10.0.windows.1.10.g803177d