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

;-)