Since 003c84f6d (specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set, 2011-05-02), we treat the argument ".." specially. We detect it by noticing that both sides of the range are empty, and that this is a non-symmetric two-dot range. While correct, this makes the code overly complicated. We can just detect ".." up front before we try to do further parsing. This avoids having to de-munge the NUL from dotdot, and lets us eliminate an extra const array (which we needed only to do direct pointer comparisons). It also removes the one code path from the range-parsing conditional that requires us to return -1. That will make it simpler to pull the dotdot parsing out into its own function. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- There's a similar call in rev-parse which could maybe take the same cleanup. I didn't bother with it because my main goal was removing an obstacle to factoring out the dotdot parsing (though in an ideal world, rev-parse would actually use the same dotdot parsing code; I've no idea how complicated that would be). revision.c | 24 ++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c index 9c683874d..dec06ff8b 100644 --- a/revision.c +++ b/revision.c @@ -1443,6 +1443,14 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi flags = flags & UNINTERESTING ? flags | BOTTOM : flags & ~BOTTOM; + if (!cant_be_filename && !strcmp(arg, "..")) { + /* + * Just ".."? That is not a range but the + * pathspec for the parent directory. + */ + return -1; + } + dotdot = strstr(arg, ".."); if (dotdot) { unsigned char from_sha1[20]; @@ -1450,27 +1458,15 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi const char *this = arg; int symmetric = *next == '.'; unsigned int flags_exclude = flags ^ (UNINTERESTING | BOTTOM); - static const char head_by_default[] = "HEAD"; unsigned int a_flags; *dotdot = 0; next += symmetric; if (!*next) - next = head_by_default; + next = "HEAD"; if (dotdot == arg) - this = head_by_default; - if (this == head_by_default && next == head_by_default && - !symmetric) { - /* - * Just ".."? That is not a range but the - * pathspec for the parent directory. - */ - if (!cant_be_filename) { - *dotdot = '.'; - return -1; - } - } + this = "HEAD"; if (!get_sha1_committish(this, from_sha1) && !get_sha1_committish(next, sha1)) { struct object *a_obj, *b_obj; -- 2.13.0.219.g63f6bc368