Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Having said all that, I do not mind queuing v2 if the "use *NO_JIT
> to disable" is added to the message to help users who are forced to
> redo the query.
In the meantime, here is what I plan to apply on top of v2 while
queuing it. The message given to die() should lack the terminating
LF, and the overlong line can and should be split at operator
boundary.
Thanks.
grep.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git c/grep.c w/grep.c
index 59afc3f07f..42f184bd09 100644
--- c/grep.c
+++ w/grep.c
@@ -357,7 +357,11 @@ static void compile_pcre2_pattern(struct grep_pat *p, const struct grep_opt *opt
p->pcre2_jit_on = 0;
return;
} else if (jitret) {
- die("Couldn't JIT the PCRE2 pattern '%s', got '%d'\n", p->pattern, jitret);
+ die("Couldn't JIT the PCRE2 pattern '%s', got '%d'%s",
+ p->pattern, jitret,
+ pcre2_jit_functional()
+ ? "\nPerhaps prefix (*NO_GIT) to your pattern?"
+ : "");
}
/*
