Fix "git checkout -b foo ':/substring'"

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.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 5621c69d86..bd74d701a1 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ while test $# != 0; do
 done
 
 arg="$1"
-if rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev/null)
+rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$arg" 2>/dev/null)
+if rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$rev^0" 2>/dev/null)
 then
 	[ -z "$rev" ] && die "unknown flag $arg"
 	new_name="$arg"
@@ -82,11 +83,11 @@ then
 	fi
 	new="$rev"
 	shift
-elif rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev/null)
+elif rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$rev^{tree}" 2>/dev/null)
 then
 	# checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
 	new="$rev"
-	new_name="$arg^{tree}"
+	new_name="$rev^{tree}"
 	shift
 fi
 [ "$1" = "--" ] && shift