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1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index 86bb7c9a9..89fcc12ab 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -186,6 +186,24 @@ 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
* as true, because even if such a filename were to exist, we want
@@ -211,7 +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);
}