Merge branch 'js/range-diff-wo-dotdot'

There are other ways than ".." for a single token to denote a
"commit range", namely "<rev>^!" and "<rev>^-<n>", but "git
range-diff" did not understand them.

* js/range-diff-wo-dotdot:
  range-diff(docs): explain how to specify commit ranges
  range-diff/format-patch: handle commit ranges other than A..B
  range-diff/format-patch: refactor check for commit range

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/range-diff.c b/builtin/range-diff.c
index 24c4162f74..5b1f632632 100644
--- a/builtin/range-diff.c
+++ b/builtin/range-diff.c
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include "parse-options.h"
 #include "range-diff.h"
 #include "config.h"
+#include "revision.h"
 
 static const char * const builtin_range_diff_usage[] = {
 N_("git range-diff [<options>] <old-base>..<old-tip> <new-base>..<new-tip>"),
@@ -46,12 +47,12 @@ int cmd_range_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		diffopt.use_color = 1;
 
 	if (argc == 2) {
-		if (!strstr(argv[0], ".."))
-			die(_("no .. in range: '%s'"), argv[0]);
+		if (!is_range_diff_range(argv[0]))
+			die(_("not a commit range: '%s'"), argv[0]);
 		strbuf_addstr(&range1, argv[0]);
 
-		if (!strstr(argv[1], ".."))
-			die(_("no .. in range: '%s'"), argv[1]);
+		if (!is_range_diff_range(argv[1]))
+			die(_("not a commit range: '%s'"), argv[1]);
 		strbuf_addstr(&range2, argv[1]);
 	} else if (argc == 3) {
 		strbuf_addf(&range1, "%s..%s", argv[0], argv[1]);