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>

diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index a32e4da4c11708dbbffd97a1467ff978b336ddd0..3820f00b066a73f6ab23e68b869a2f42e46c4e89 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def parse_options():
     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\'")