From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:32:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix "git checkout -b foo ':/substring'"
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0802020331210.13593@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w7w6oq7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Because ':/substring' extended SHA1 expression cannot take
> postfix modifiers such as ^{tree} and ^{commit}, we would need
> to do it in multiple steps.  With the patch, you can start a new
> branch from a randomly-picked commit whose message has the named
> string in it.

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.

	-Daniel
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