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>
This commit is contained in:
Matthieu Moy
2015-04-20 14:09:07 +02:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent d349e0ee60
commit 0269f968b7
2 changed files with 5 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ parse_lines(struct commit *commit, const char *prefix, struct string_list *args)
name_part = skip_range_arg(item->string);
if (!name_part || *name_part != ':' || !name_part[1])
die("-L argument '%s' not of the form start,end:file",
die("-L argument not 'start,end:file' or ':funcname:file': %s",
item->string);
range_part = xstrndup(item->string, name_part - item->string);
name_part++;