1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 9a5c77c13f..340d878f02 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ int diff_opt_parse(struct diff_options *options, const char **av, int ac)
 	else if ((argcount = parse_long_opt("output", av, &optarg))) {
 		options->file = fopen(optarg, "w");
 		if (!options->file)
-			die_errno("Could not open '%s'", arg + strlen("--output="));
+			die_errno("Could not open '%s'", optarg);
 		options->close_file = 1;
 		return argcount;
 	} else
@@ -3527,7 +3527,7 @@ static void diff_flush_stat(struct diff_filepair *p, struct diff_options *o,
 
 	if ((DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->one) && S_ISDIR(p->one->mode)) ||
 	    (DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->two) && S_ISDIR(p->two->mode)))
-		return; /* no tree diffs in patch format */
+		return; /* no useful stat for tree diffs */
 
 	run_diffstat(p, o, diffstat);
 }
@@ -3540,7 +3540,7 @@ static void diff_flush_checkdiff(struct diff_filepair *p,
 
 	if ((DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->one) && S_ISDIR(p->one->mode)) ||
 	    (DIFF_FILE_VALID(p->two) && S_ISDIR(p->two->mode)))
-		return; /* no tree diffs in patch format */
+		return; /* nothing to check in tree diffs */
 
 	run_checkdiff(p, o);
 }