Make git-rev-list and git-rev-parse argument parsing stricter

If you pass it a filename without the "--" marker to separate it from
revision information and flags, we now require that the file in question
actually exists. This makes mis-typed revision information not be silently
just considered a strange filename.

With the "--" marker, you can continue to pass in filenames that do not
actually exists - useful for querying what happened to a file that you
no longer have in the repository.

[ All scripts should use the "--" format regardless, to make things
  unambiguous. So this change should not affect any existing tools ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rev-list.c b/rev-list.c
index d060966..e00e6fc 100644
--- a/rev-list.c
+++ b/rev-list.c
@@ -844,8 +844,12 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 			arg++;
 			limited = 1;
 		}
-		if (get_sha1(arg, sha1) < 0)
+		if (get_sha1(arg, sha1) < 0) {
+			struct stat st;
+			if (lstat(arg, &st) < 0)
+				die("'%s': %s", arg, strerror(errno));
 			break;
+		}
 		commit = get_commit_reference(arg, sha1, flags);
 		handle_one_commit(commit, &list);
 	}