Teach "git diff" to handle filenames starting with '-'

It adds "--" to the git-diff.sh scripts, to keep any filenames that start
with a "-" from being confused with an option.

But in order to do that, it needs to teach git-diff-files to honor "--".

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

diff --git a/diff-files.c b/diff-files.c
index 8a8f9b6dc77683bd7926f8599a2aa6eb03023b57..17899390b80f4bfc03718e92029b5c4de65055b6 100644 (file)
--- a/diff-files.c
+++ b/diff-files.c
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
        git_config(git_default_config);
        diff_setup(&diff_options);
        while (1 < argc && argv[1][0] == '-') {
+               if (!strcmp(argv[1], "--")) {
+                       argv++;
+                       argc--;
+                       break;
+               }
                if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-q"))
                        silent = 1;
                else if (!strcmp(argv[1], "-r"))

diff --git a/git-diff.sh b/git-diff.sh
index 84a152af206166e88701b27acdc7d2b033e90bab..b3ec84be698311b30e8c7c793873e6caa41daf71 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-diff.sh
+++ b/git-diff.sh
@@ -28,16 +28,16 @@ case "$rev" in
 ?*' '^?*)
        begin=$(expr "$rev" : '.*^.\([0-9a-f]*\).*') &&
        end=$(expr "$rev" : '.\([0-9a-f]*\). .*') || exit
-       cmd="git-diff-tree $flags $begin $end $files"
+       cmd="git-diff-tree $flags $begin $end -- $files"
        ;;
 ?*' '?*)
-       cmd="git-diff-tree $flags $rev $files"
+       cmd="git-diff-tree $flags $rev -- $files"
        ;;
 ?*' ')
-       cmd="git-diff-index $flags $rev $files"
+       cmd="git-diff-index $flags $rev -- $files"
        ;;
 '')
-       cmd="git-diff-files $flags $files"
+       cmd="git-diff-files $flags -- $files"
        ;;
 *)
        die "I don't understand $*"