commit 0d18c19288601b66ad2852cceb66ae68972243dc
author Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com> Thu Oct 27 14:34:57 2016 +0200
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Fri Oct 28 08:12:14 2016 -0400
tree 803e2811f9b42dcad345618f66da5d5ab8c80cc5
parent 07d9a380680d1c0eb51ef87ff2eab5c994949e69

checkkconfigsymbols.py: support git's "^" syntax

Support git's "^" syntax for diffing two commits, for instance via
"--diff HEAD^^^..HEAD".

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellermann <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py

diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index a32e4da..3820f00b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
     if args.commit and args.diff:
         sys.exit("Please specify only one option at once.")
 
-    if args.diff and not re.match(r"^[\w\-\.]+\.\.[\w\-\.]+$", args.diff):
+    if args.diff and not re.match(r"^[\w\-\.\^]+\.\.[\w\-\.\^]+$", args.diff):
         sys.exit("Please specify valid input in the following format: "
                  "\'commit1..commit2\'")