3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el b/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el
index a9cbf40c5e3..d30ba1a1cdf 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/ediff-init.el
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ Do not start with `~/' or `~USERNAME/'."
 (defcustom ediff-metachars "[ \t\n!\"#$&'()*;<=>?[\\^`{|~]"
   "Regexp that matches characters that must be quoted with `\\' in shell command line.
 This default should work without changes."
-  :type 'string
+  :type 'regexp
   :group 'ediff)
 
 ;; needed to simulate frame-char-width in XEmacs.
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
index cdb50db0d03..c39ee64fca7 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-git.el
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ format string (which is passed to \"git log\" via the argument
 \"--pretty=tformat:FORMAT\"), REGEXP is a regular expression
 matching the resulting Git log output, and KEYWORDS is a list of
 `font-lock-keywords' for highlighting the Log View buffer."
-  :type '(list string string (repeat sexp))
+  :type '(list string regexp (repeat sexp))
   :version "24.1")
 
 (defcustom vc-git-commits-coding-system 'utf-8
diff --git a/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el b/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el
index f264ba2c9af..205303761a5 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/vc-hg.el
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ is the \"--template\" argument string to pass to Mercurial,
 REGEXP is a regular expression matching the resulting Mercurial
 output, and KEYWORDS is a list of `font-lock-keywords' for
 highlighting the Log View buffer."
-  :type '(list string string (repeat sexp))
+  :type '(list string regexp (repeat sexp))
   :group 'vc-hg
   :version "24.5")