log -L: improve error message on malformed argument
The old message did not mention the :regex:file form. To avoid overly long lines, split the message into two lines (in case item->string is long, it will be the only part truncated in a narrow terminal). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ parse_lines(struct commit *commit, const char *prefix, struct string_list *args)
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name_part = skip_range_arg(item->string);
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if (!name_part || *name_part != ':' || !name_part[1])
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die("-L argument '%s' not of the form start,end:file",
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die("-L argument not 'start,end:file' or ':funcname:file': %s",
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item->string);
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range_part = xstrndup(item->string, name_part - item->string);
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name_part++;
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