diff --git a/gerrit-pgm/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/init/api/AllProjectsConfig.java b/gerrit-pgm/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/init/api/AllProjectsConfig.java
index 06d907a11a..d6c0dc9920 100644
--- a/gerrit-pgm/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/init/api/AllProjectsConfig.java
+++ b/gerrit-pgm/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/pgm/init/api/AllProjectsConfig.java
@@ -102,15 +102,8 @@ public class AllProjectsConfig extends VersionedMetaData {
   }
 
   private GroupList readGroupList() throws IOException {
-    ValidationError.Sink errors = new ValidationError.Sink() {
-      @Override
-      public void error(ValidationError error) {
-        log.error("Error parsing file " + GroupList.FILE_NAME + ": " + error.getMessage());
-      }
-    };
-    String text = readUTF8(GroupList.FILE_NAME);
-
-    return GroupList.parse(text, errors);
+    return GroupList.parse(readUTF8(GroupList.FILE_NAME),
+        GroupList.createLoggerSink(GroupList.FILE_NAME, log));
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/account/VersionedAccountQueries.java b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/account/VersionedAccountQueries.java
index b12e7ceacb..18e1310f91 100644
--- a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/account/VersionedAccountQueries.java
+++ b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/account/VersionedAccountQueries.java
@@ -53,14 +53,8 @@ public class VersionedAccountQueries extends VersionedMetaData {
 
   @Override
   protected void onLoad() throws IOException, ConfigInvalidException {
-    ValidationError.Sink errors = new ValidationError.Sink() {
-      @Override
-      public void error(ValidationError error) {
-        log.error("Error parsing file " + QueryList.FILE_NAME + ": " +
-            error.getMessage());
-      }
-    };
-    queryList = QueryList.parse(readUTF8(QueryList.FILE_NAME), errors);
+    queryList = QueryList.parse(readUTF8(QueryList.FILE_NAME),
+        QueryList.createLoggerSink(QueryList.FILE_NAME, log));
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/TabFile.java b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/TabFile.java
index 74d8f2d7b5..13d2b1efc4 100644
--- a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/TabFile.java
+++ b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/TabFile.java
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 package com.google.gerrit.server.git;
 
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
@@ -126,4 +128,9 @@ public class TabFile {
     }
     return r.toString();
   }
+
+  public static ValidationError.Sink createLoggerSink(String file, Logger log) {
+    return ValidationError.createLoggerSink("Error parsing file " + file + ": ",
+        log);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/ValidationError.java b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/ValidationError.java
index ad84046e35..e6a8ae46b8 100644
--- a/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/ValidationError.java
+++ b/gerrit-server/src/main/java/com/google/gerrit/server/git/ValidationError.java
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 package com.google.gerrit.server.git;
 
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+
 /** Indicates a problem with Git based data. */
 public class ValidationError {
   private final String message;
@@ -42,4 +44,13 @@ public class ValidationError {
   public interface Sink {
     void error(ValidationError error);
   }
+
+  public static Sink createLoggerSink(final String message, final Logger log) {
+    return new ValidationError.Sink() {
+          @Override
+          public void error(ValidationError error) {
+            log.error(message + error.getMessage());
+          }
+        };
+  }
 }