handle_revision_arg: reset "dotdot" consistently

When we are parsing a range like "a..b", we write a
temporary NUL over the first ".", so that we can access the
names "a" and "b" as C strings. But our restoration of the
original "." is done at inconsistent times, which can lead
to confusing results.

For most calls, we restore the "." after we resolve the
names, but before we call verify_non_filename().  This means
that when we later call add_pending_object(), the name for
the left-hand "a" has been re-expanded to "a..b". You can
see this with:

  git log --source a...b

where "b" will be correctly marked with "b", but "a" will be
marked with "a...b". Likewise with "a..b" (though you need
to use --boundary to even see "a" at all in that case).

To top off the confusion, when the REVARG_CANNOT_BE_FILENAME
flag is set, we skip the non-filename check, and leave the
NUL in place.

That means we do report the correct name for "a" in the
pending array. But some code paths try to show the whole
"a...b" name in error messages, and these erroneously show
only "a" instead of "a...b". E.g.:

  $ git cherry-pick HEAD:foo...HEAD:foo
  error: object d95f3ad14dee633a758d2e331151e950dd13e4ed is a blob, not a commit
  error: object d95f3ad14dee633a758d2e331151e950dd13e4ed is a blob, not a commit
  fatal: Invalid symmetric difference expression HEAD:foo

(That last message should be "HEAD:foo...HEAD:foo"; I used
cherry-pick because it passes the CANNOT_BE_FILENAME flag).

As an interesting side note, cherry-pick actually looks at
and re-resolves the arguments from the pending->name fields.
So it would have been visibly broken by the first bug, but
the effect was canceled out by the second one.

This patch makes the whole function consistent by re-writing
the NUL immediately after calling verify_non_filename(), and
then restoring the "." as appropriate in some error-printing
and early-return code paths.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 7ff61ff5f7..2bcd60a2bb 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1477,12 +1477,14 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi
 			if (!cant_be_filename) {
 				*dotdot = '.';
 				verify_non_filename(revs->prefix, arg);
+				*dotdot = '\0';
 			}
 
 			a_obj = parse_object(from_sha1);
 			b_obj = parse_object(sha1);
 			if (!a_obj || !b_obj) {
 			missing:
+				*dotdot = '.';
 				if (revs->ignore_missing)
 					return 0;
 				die(symmetric
@@ -1525,6 +1527,7 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi
 					REV_CMD_RIGHT, flags);
 			add_pending_object(revs, a_obj, this);
 			add_pending_object(revs, b_obj, next);
+			*dotdot = '.';
 			return 0;
 		}
 		*dotdot = '.';