Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add revision range support on "-" and "@{-1}"

[Kenny Lee Sin Cheong <kenny.lee28@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 17 2015 at 02:49:48 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> 	if (try to see if it is a revision or regvision range) {
>         	/* if failed ... */
> 		if (starts with '-') {
>                 	do the option thing;
>                         continue;
> 		}
> 		/* args must be pathspecs from here on */
>                 check the  '--' disambiguation;
>                 add pathspec to prune-data;
> 	} else {
> 		got_rev_arg = 1;
> 	}
>
> but I didn't trace the logic myself to see if that would work.

You're right. I was actually going to try and check all possible
suffixes of "-" but your solution saves us from doing that, and it
didn't break any tests.

On a similar note, would it be relevant to add similar changes to
rev-parse? While trying to write some test, I noticed that rev-parse
doesn't support "-". If I'm not mistaking it assumes everything that starts with "-"
must be an option. But since it is a plumbing tool I don't know if it
would be worth it or even an improvement.