Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > diff --git a/diffcore-pickaxe.c b/diffcore-pickaxe.c > index cff46f9f8f7..dd1b5c72332 100644 > --- a/diffcore-pickaxe.c > +++ b/diffcore-pickaxe.c > @@ -132,9 +132,6 @@ static int pickaxe_match(struct diff_filepair *p, struct diff_options *o, > oidset_contains(o->objfind, &p->two->oid)); > } > > - if (!o->pickaxe[0]) > - return 0; So -S"" could pass o->pickaxe a non-NULL pointer, but the string pointed by that pointer could be 0-length. And that is not what we want to see happen. > if (o->flags.allow_textconv) { > textconv_one = get_textconv(o->repo, p->one); > textconv_two = get_textconv(o->repo, p->two); > @@ -230,6 +227,8 @@ void diffcore_pickaxe(struct diff_options *o) > kwset_t kws = NULL; > pickaxe_fn fn; > > + if (opts & ~DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_OBJFIND && !needle) > + BUG("should have needle under -G or -S"); Here, needle was picked up at the beginning of this function like so: void diffcore_pickaxe(struct diff_options *o) { const char *needle = o->pickaxe; The two checks seem to be protecting from different things. Shouldn't the new BUG() condition be more like if ((opts & ~DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_OBJFIND) && (!needle || !*needle)) instead? > if (opts & (DIFF_PICKAXE_REGEX | DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_G)) { > int cflags = REG_EXTENDED | REG_NEWLINE; > if (o->pickaxe_opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_IGNORE_CASE) > diff --git a/t/t4209-log-pickaxe.sh b/t/t4209-log-pickaxe.sh > index bcaca7e882c..4b65b89e7a5 100755 > --- a/t/t4209-log-pickaxe.sh > +++ b/t/t4209-log-pickaxe.sh > @@ -56,6 +56,12 @@ test_expect_success setup ' > ' > > test_expect_success 'usage' ' > + test_expect_code 129 git log -S 2>err && > + test_i18ngrep "switch.*requires a value" err && > + > + test_expect_code 129 git log -G 2>err && > + test_i18ngrep "switch.*requires a value" err && > + > test_expect_code 128 git log -Gregex -Sstring 2>err && > test_i18ngrep "mutually exclusive" err &&