[PATCH 0/2] rev-parse and "--"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Dec 6, 2013, 21:12 UTC
Message-ID: <20131206211222.GB20482@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8uvz3rdf.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 01:44:12PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> ;-) Good flow of thought.  As to your rev-parse change, I don't
> immediately think of a hole/flaw offhand; it looked a good
> straight-forward change to me.

Here it is with tests and a commit message. While writing the tests, I noticed that also do not handle true ambiguity the same (we prefer revs, rather than complaining). That's fixed in the second commit.

  [1/2]: rev-parse: correctly diagnose revision errors before "--"
  [2/2]: rev-parse: diagnose ambiguous revision/filename arguments

-Peff