I noticed earlier that running
$ git checkout -b test master...
would result in the following failure message:
fatal: Not a valid object name: 'master...'.
I believe that this is a bug, so this patchset will allow this to succeed.
Denton Liu (3):
t2018: cleanup in current test
t2018: demonstrate checkout -b merge base bug
checkout: allow -b/-B to work on a merge base
builtin/checkout.c | 4 ++-
t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 52 +++++++++++++++++++-------------------
2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
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2.21.0.1033.g0e8cc1100c
