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-rw-r--r--setup.c4
-rwxr-xr-xt/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh13
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/setup.c b/setup.c
index f2a8070bd4..86bb7c9a96 100644
--- a/setup.c
+++ b/setup.c
@@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ int check_filename(const char *prefix, const char *arg)
if (!*arg) /* ":/" is root dir, always exists */
return 1;
prefix = NULL;
+ } else if (skip_prefix(arg, ":!", &arg) ||
+ skip_prefix(arg, ":^", &arg)) {
+ if (!*arg) /* excluding everything is silly, but allowed */
+ return 1;
}
if (prefix)
diff --git a/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh b/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh
index 70bc64100b..627890d7d8 100755
--- a/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh
+++ b/t/t4208-log-magic-pathspec.sh
@@ -52,6 +52,19 @@ test_expect_success 'git log HEAD -- :/' '
test_cmp expected actual
'
+test_expect_success '"git log :^sub" is not ambiguous' '
+ git log :^sub
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"git log :^does-not-exist" does not match anything' '
+ test_must_fail git log :^does-not-exist
+'
+
+test_expect_success '"git log :!" behaves the same as :^' '
+ git log :!sub &&
+ test_must_fail git log :!does-not-exist
+'
+
test_expect_success 'command line pathspec parsing for "git log"' '
git reset --hard &&
>a &&