Merge branch 'jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory' into maint-1.7.11

"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when
there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line.  Update the
command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case.

* jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory:
  specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 6d21ac7ee1..72104962d3 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1134,15 +1134,27 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs,
 		const char *this = arg;
 		int symmetric = *next == '.';
 		unsigned int flags_exclude = flags ^ UNINTERESTING;
+		static const char head_by_default[] = "HEAD";
 		unsigned int a_flags;
 
 		*dotdot = 0;
 		next += symmetric;
 
 		if (!*next)
-			next = "HEAD";
+			next = head_by_default;
 		if (dotdot == arg)
-			this = "HEAD";
+			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;
+			}
+		}
 		if (!get_sha1(this, from_sha1) &&
 		    !get_sha1(next, sha1)) {
 			struct commit *a, *b;