From: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:08:37 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: last-modified: rewrite error message when more than one revision given
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last-modified: rewrite error message when more than one revision given

When more than one revision is passed to the git-last-modified(1)
command, this error message was printed:

    error: last-modified can only operate on one tree at a time

Calling these a "tree" is technically not correct. git-last-modified(1)
expects revisions that peel to a commit.

Rephrase the error message to:

    error: last-modified can only operate on one revision at a time

Signed-off-by: Toon Claes <toon@iotcl.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

diff --git a/builtin/last-modified.c b/builtin/last-modified.c
index c80f0535f6..7d95244e3f 100644
--- a/builtin/last-modified.c
+++ b/builtin/last-modified.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static int populate_paths_from_revs(struct last_modified *lm)
 			continue;
 
 		if (num_interesting++)
-			return error(_("last-modified can only operate on one tree at a time"));
+			return error(_("last-modified can only operate on one revision at a time"));
 
 		diff_tree_oid(lm->rev.repo->hash_algo->empty_tree,
 			      &obj->item->oid, "", &diffopt);
diff --git a/t/t8020-last-modified.sh b/t/t8020-last-modified.sh
index 50f4312f71..1183ae667b 100755
--- a/t/t8020-last-modified.sh
+++ b/t/t8020-last-modified.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup' '
 	test_commit 3 a/b/file
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'cannot run last-modified on two trees' '
+test_expect_success 'cannot run last-modified on two revision' '
 	test_must_fail git last-modified HEAD HEAD~1
 '