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

Daniel Barkalow [off-list ref] 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 [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu Apr 7 15:13:13 2005 -0700

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

;-)