There were two bugs in there:
- if the range didn't end up working, we restored the '.' character in
the wrong place.
- an empty end-of-range should be interpreted as HEAD.
See rev-parse.c for the reference implementation of this.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
diff --git a/rev-list.c b/rev-list.c
--- a/rev-list.c
+++ b/rev-list.c
@@ -561,6 +561,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
struct commit *exclude = NULL;
struct commit *include = NULL;
*dotdot = 0;
+ if (!*next)
+ next = "HEAD";
exclude = get_commit_reference(arg, UNINTERESTING);
include = get_commit_reference(next, 0);
if (exclude && include) {
@@ -569,7 +571,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
handle_one_commit(include, &list);
continue;
}
- *next = '.';
+ *dotdot = '.';
}
if (*arg == '^') {
flags = UNINTERESTING;
Linus Torvalds