Merge branch 'jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation'

The convention for a command line is to follow "git cmdname
--options" with revisions followed by an optional "--"
disambiguator and then finally pathspecs.  When "--" is not there,
we make sure early ones are all interpretable as revs (and do not
look like paths) and later ones are the other way around.  A
pathspec with "magic" (e.g. ":/p/a/t/h" that matches p/a/t/h from
the top-level of the working tree, no matter what subdirectory you
are working from) are conservatively judged as "not a path", which
required disambiguation more often.  The command line parser
learned to say "it's a pathspec" a bit more often when the syntax
looks like so.

* jk/pathspec-magic-disambiguation:
  verify_filename(): flip order of checks
  verify_filename(): treat ":(magic)" as a pathspec
  check_filename(): handle ":^" path magic
  check_filename(): use skip_prefix
  check_filename(): refactor ":/" handling
  t4208: add check for ":/" without matching file

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh b/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh
index 001343e2fc..935df6a65c 100755
--- a/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh
+++ b/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ test_expect_success '"git log -- :/a" should not be ambiguous' '
 	git log -- :/a
 '
 
+# This differs from the ":/a" check above in that :/in looks like a pathspec,
+# but doesn't match an actual file.
+test_expect_success '"git log :/in" should not be ambiguous' '
+	git log :/in
+'
+
 test_expect_success '"git log :" should be ambiguous' '
 	test_must_fail git log : 2>error &&
 	test_i18ngrep ambiguous error
@@ -46,6 +52,32 @@ test_expect_success 'git log HEAD -- :/' '
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success '"git log :^sub" is not ambiguous' '
+	git log :^sub
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"git log :^does-not-exist" does not match anything' '
+	test_must_fail git log :^does-not-exist
+'
+
+test_expect_success  '"git log :!" behaves the same as :^' '
+	git log :!sub &&
+	test_must_fail git log :!does-not-exist
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"git log :(exclude)sub" is not ambiguous' '
+	git log ":(exclude)sub"
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"git log :(exclude)sub --" must resolve as an object' '
+	test_must_fail git log ":(exclude)sub" --
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"git log :(unknown-magic) complains of bogus magic' '
+	test_must_fail git log ":(unknown-magic)" 2>error &&
+	test_i18ngrep pathspec.magic error
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'command line pathspec parsing for "git log"' '
 	git reset --hard &&
 	>a &&