Merge branch 'maint-1.7.11' into maint

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/revision.c b/revision.c
index 442a945233..cbcae1086b 100644
--- a/revision.c
+++ b/revision.c
@@ -1134,15 +1134,27 @@ int handle_revision_arg(const char *arg_, struct rev_info *revs, int flags, unsi
 		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_committish(this, from_sha1) &&
 		    !get_sha1_committish(next, sha1)) {
 			struct commit *a, *b;