Merge branch 'jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory' into maint-1.7.11

"git log .." errored out saying it is both rev range and a path when there is no disambiguating "--" is on the command line. Update the command line parser to interpret ".." as a path in such a case. * jc/dotdot-is-parent-directory: specifying ranges: we did not mean to make ".." an empty set