Merge branch 'jc/blame-reverse'

It is a common mistake to say "git blame --reverse OLD path",
expecting that the command line is dwimmed as if asking how lines
in path in an old revision OLD have survived up to the current
commit.

* jc/blame-reverse:
  blame: dwim "blame --reverse OLD" as "blame --reverse OLD.."
  blame: improve diagnosis for "--reverse NEW"

Author: gitster

Documentation/blame-options.txt

@@ -28,12 +28,13 @@ include::line-range-format.txt[]
 -S <revs-file>::
 	Use revisions from revs-file instead of calling linkgit:git-rev-list[1].
 
---reverse::
+--reverse <rev>..<rev>::
 	Walk history forward instead of backward. Instead of showing
 	the revision in which a line appeared, this shows the last
 	revision in which a line has existed. This requires a range of
 	revision like START..END where the path to blame exists in
-	START.
+	START.  `git blame --reverse START` is taken as `git blame
+	--reverse START..HEAD` for convenience.
 
 -p::
 --porcelain::

Documentation/git-blame.txt

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 [verse]
 'git blame' [-c] [-b] [-l] [--root] [-t] [-f] [-n] [-s] [-e] [-p] [-w] [--incremental]
 	    [-L <range>] [-S <revs-file>] [-M] [-C] [-C] [-C] [--since=<date>]
-	    [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>]
+	    [--progress] [--abbrev=<n>] [<rev> | --contents <file> | --reverse <rev>..<rev>]
 	    [--] <file>
 
 DESCRIPTION

builtin/blame.c

@@ -2456,6 +2456,41 @@ static char *prepare_final(struct scoreboard *sb)
 	return xstrdup_or_null(name);
 }
 
+static const char *dwim_reverse_initial(struct scoreboard *sb)
+{
+	/*
+	 * DWIM "git blame --reverse ONE -- PATH" as
+	 * "git blame --reverse ONE..HEAD -- PATH" but only do so
+	 * when it makes sense.
+	 */
+	struct object *obj;
+	struct commit *head_commit;
+	unsigned char head_sha1[20];
+
+	if (sb->revs->pending.nr != 1)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* Is that sole rev a committish? */
+	obj = sb->revs->pending.objects[0].item;
+	obj = deref_tag(obj, NULL, 0);
+	if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* Do we have HEAD? */
+	if (!resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", RESOLVE_REF_READING, head_sha1, NULL))
+		return NULL;
+	head_commit = lookup_commit_reference_gently(head_sha1, 1);
+	if (!head_commit)
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* Turn "ONE" into "ONE..HEAD" then */
+	obj->flags |= UNINTERESTING;
+	add_pending_object(sb->revs, &head_commit->object, "HEAD");
+
+	sb->final = (struct commit *)obj;
+	return sb->revs->pending.objects[0].name;
+}
+
 static char *prepare_initial(struct scoreboard *sb)
 {
 	int i;
@@ -2474,14 +2509,17 @@ static char *prepare_initial(struct scoreboard *sb)
 		if (obj->type != OBJ_COMMIT)
 			die("Non commit %s?", revs->pending.objects[i].name);
 		if (sb->final)
-			die("More than one commit to dig down to %s and %s?",
+			die("More than one commit to dig up from, %s and %s?",
 			    revs->pending.objects[i].name,
 			    final_commit_name);
 		sb->final = (struct commit *) obj;
 		final_commit_name = revs->pending.objects[i].name;
 	}
+
+	if (!final_commit_name)
+		final_commit_name = dwim_reverse_initial(sb);
 	if (!final_commit_name)
-		die("No commit to dig down to?");
+		die("No commit to dig up from?");
 	return xstrdup(final_commit_name);
 }