interpret_branch_name(): handle auto-namelen for @{-1}

The interpret_branch_name() function takes a ptr/len pair
for the name, but you can pass "0" for "namelen", which will
cause it to check the length with strlen().

However, before we do that auto-namelen magic, we call
interpret_nth_prior_checkout(), which gets fed the bogus
"0". This was broken by 8cd4249c4 (interpret_branch_name:
always respect "namelen" parameter, 2014-01-15).  Though to
be fair to that commit, it was broken in the _opposite_
direction before, where we would always treat "name" as a
string even if a length was passed.

You can see the bug with "git log -g @{-1}". That code path
always passes "0", and without this patch it cannot figure
out which branch's reflog to show.

We can fix it by a small reordering of the code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t0100-previous.sh b/t/t0100-previous.sh
index e0a6940232..58c0b7e9b6 100755
--- a/t/t0100-previous.sh
+++ b/t/t0100-previous.sh
@@ -56,5 +56,13 @@ test_expect_success 'merge @{-100} before checking out that many branches yet' '
 	test_must_fail git merge @{-100}
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'log -g @{-1}' '
+	git checkout -b last_branch &&
+	git checkout -b new_branch &&
+	echo "last_branch@{0}" >expect &&
+	git log -g --format=%gd @{-1} >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done