format-patch: "rev1.." should mean "rev1..HEAD"

"rev1.." should mean "rev1..HEAD"; git-diff users are familiar
with that syntax.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

diff --git a/git-format-patch.sh b/git-format-patch.sh
index 0207ab1..5b93ff8 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-format-patch.sh
+++ b/git-format-patch.sh
@@ -92,11 +92,18 @@ filelist=$tmp-files
 # 3. "rev1" "rev2      is equivalent to "rev1..rev2"
 #
 # We want to take a sequence of "rev1..rev2" in general.
+# Also, "rev1.." should mean "rev1..HEAD"; git-diff users are
+# familiar with that syntax.
 
 case "$#,$1" in
 1,?*..?*)
        # single "rev1..rev2"
        ;;
+1,?*..)
+       # single "rev1.." should mean "rev1..HEAD"
+       set x "$1"HEAD"
+       shift
+       ;;
 1,*)
        # single rev1
        set x "$1..HEAD"