"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx>
writes:
> +test_expect_success 'A^! and A^-<n> (unmodified)' '
> + git range-diff --no-color topic^! unmodified^-1 >actual &&
> + cat >expect <<-EOF &&
> + 1: $(test_oid t4) = 1: $(test_oid u4) s/12/B/
> + EOF
> + test_cmp expect actual
> +'
Now we actually parse the single-token range, instead of relying on
"does it have dot-dot" heuristics, we can make sure that we reject
"HEAD^{/^string with .. in it}"
as "not a range with negative and positive ends".
