Re: [PATCH] Fix "git checkout -b foo ':/substring'"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2008, 09:01 UTC
Message-ID: <7vprvf3f6g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802020331210.13593@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

> Could we have a test for this? I'm not exactly sure how to use it, and I 
> want to make sure my C version works.

$ git checkout -b newone ':/Initial revision of "git"'
$ git log
commit e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700

    Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell

;-)