On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:25:40AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > 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.
That commit is mine, by the way. More embarrassing than introducing the bug is that I _noticed_ the problem at the time and wrote a paragraph in the commit message rationalizing why it was OK, rather than just doing this trivial fix. -Peff
