On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:10:10AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > diff --git a/parse-options.c b/parse-options.c > index 312a85dbd..4fbe924a5 100644 > --- a/parse-options.c > +++ b/parse-options.c > @@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ void NORETURN usage_msg_opt(const char *msg, > const char * const *usagestr, > const struct option *options) > { > - fprintf(stderr, "%s\n\n", msg); > + fprintf(stderr, "fatal: %s\n\n", msg); Your commit message does not make clear if you want this "fatal" to be grep-able (by scripts) or not. If not, please _() the string. Maybe this to reduce work for translators /* TRANSLATORS: this is the prefix before usage error */ fprintf(stderr, "%s %s\n\n", _("fatal:"), msg); > usage_with_options(usagestr, options); > } > > -- > 2.11.0.341.g202cd3142