verify_filename(): treat ":(magic)" as a pathspec

diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 5c7946d2b45f067049e11347cca1cedc9790e228..89fcc12ab764284ec0eaef37d9fe275f13b1894e 100644 (file)
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -134,19 +134,23 @@ int path_inside_repo(const char *prefix, const char *path)
 
 int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
 {
-       const char *name;
        char *to_free = NULL;
        struct stat st;
 
-       if (starts_with(arg, ":/")) {
-               if (arg[2] == '\0') /* ":/" is root dir, always exists */
+       if (skip_prefix(arg, ":/", &arg)) {
+               if (!*arg) /* ":/" is root dir, always exists */
                        return 1;
-               name = arg + 2;
-       } else if (prefix)
-               name = to_free = prefix_filename(prefix, arg);
-       else
-               name = arg;
-       if (!lstat(name, &st)) {
+               prefix = NULL;
+       } else if (skip_prefix(arg, ":!", &arg) ||
+                  skip_prefix(arg, ":^", &arg)) {
+               if (!*arg) /* excluding everything is silly, but allowed */
+                       return 1;
+       }
+
+       if (prefix)
+               arg = to_free = prefix_filename(prefix, arg);
+
+       if (!lstat(arg, &st)) {
                free(to_free);
                return 1; /* file exists */
        }
@@ -181,6 +185,24 @@ static void NORETURN die_verify_filename(const char *prefix,
 
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check for arguments that don't resolve as actual files,
+ * but which look sufficiently like pathspecs that we'll consider
+ * them such for the purposes of rev/pathspec DWIM parsing.
+ */
+static int looks_like_pathspec(const char *arg)
+{
+       /* anything with a wildcard character */
+       if (!no_wildcard(arg))
+               return 1;
+
+       /* long-form pathspec magic */
+       if (starts_with(arg, ":("))
+               return 1;
+
+       return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * Verify a filename that we got as an argument for a pathspec
  * entry. Note that a filename that begins with "-" never verifies
@@ -207,7 +229,7 @@ void verify_filename(const char *prefix,
 {
        if (*arg == '-')
                die("bad flag '%s' used after filename", arg);
-       if (check_filename(prefix, arg) || !no_wildcard(arg))
+       if (check_filename(prefix, arg) || looks_like_pathspec(arg))
                return;
        die_verify_filename(prefix, arg, diagnose_misspelt_rev);
 }
@@ -987,7 +1009,7 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
 {
        static struct strbuf cwd = STRBUF_INIT;
        struct strbuf dir = STRBUF_INIT, gitdir = STRBUF_INIT;
-       const char *prefix;
+       const char *prefix, *env_prefix;
 
        /*
         * We may have read an incomplete configuration before
@@ -1045,6 +1067,10 @@ const char *setup_git_directory_gently(int *nongit_ok)
                die("BUG: unhandled setup_git_directory_1() result");
        }
 
+       env_prefix = getenv(GIT_TOPLEVEL_PREFIX_ENVIRONMENT);
+       if (env_prefix)
+               prefix = env_prefix;
+
        if (prefix)
                setenv(GIT_PREFIX_ENVIRONMENT, prefix, 1);
        else