Merge branch 'cc/bisect-start-fix'

"git bisect start X Y", when X and Y are not valid committish
object names, should take X and Y as pathspec, but didn't.

* cc/bisect-start-fix:
  bisect: don't use invalid oid as rev when starting

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/bisect--helper.c b/builtin/bisect--helper.c
index 7dcc1b5188..2f8ef0ea30 100644
--- a/builtin/bisect--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/bisect--helper.c
@@ -484,14 +484,13 @@ static int bisect_start(struct bisect_terms *terms, const char **argv, int argc)
 			terms->term_bad = xstrdup(arg);
 		} else if (starts_with(arg, "--")) {
 			return error(_("unrecognized option: '%s'"), arg);
-		} else {
-			char *commit_id = xstrfmt("%s^{commit}", arg);
-			if (get_oid(commit_id, &oid) && has_double_dash)
-				die(_("'%s' does not appear to be a valid "
-				      "revision"), arg);
-
+		} else if (!get_oidf(&oid, "%s^{commit}", arg)) {
 			string_list_append(&revs, oid_to_hex(&oid));
-			free(commit_id);
+		} else if (has_double_dash) {
+			die(_("'%s' does not appear to be a valid "
+			      "revision"), arg);
+		} else {
+			break;
 		}
 	}
 	pathspec_pos = i;
diff --git a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
index b886529e59..aa226381be 100755
--- a/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
+++ b/t/t6030-bisect-porcelain.sh
@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ test_expect_success 'bisect fails if given any junk instead of revs' '
 	git bisect bad $HASH4
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'bisect start without -- takes unknown arg as pathspec' '
+	git bisect reset &&
+	git bisect start foo bar &&
+	grep foo ".git/BISECT_NAMES" &&
+	grep bar ".git/BISECT_NAMES"
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'bisect reset: back in the master branch' '
 	git bisect reset &&
 	echo "* master" > branch.expect &&