general improvements

diff --git a/builtin/rev-list.c b/builtin/rev-list.c
index 301ccb970bb36340bc6b4a136a3029811f252aa2..b8dc2e1fba6ce4c7763a55924f34d86796d982a2 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/rev-list.c
+++ b/builtin/rev-list.c
@@ -473,8 +473,10 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
                                die(_("object filtering requires --objects"));
                        if (filter_options.choice == LOFC_SPARSE_OID &&
                            !filter_options.sparse_oid_value)
-                               die(_("invalid sparse value '%s'"),
-                                   filter_options.filter_spec);
+                               die(
+                                       _("invalid sparse value '%s'"),
+                                       list_objects_filter_spec(
+                                               &filter_options));
                        continue;
                }
                if (!strcmp(arg, ("--no-" CL_ARG__FILTER))) {