branch: improve documentation and naming of create_branch() parameters

diff --git a/t/t3400-rebase.sh b/t/t3400-rebase.sh
index f5fd15e55994bafc0f0a2c91b0d00455df13d18d..8ac58d5ea5e4b8b75deaa74f3d6bca29f37dbcb6 100755 (executable)
--- a/t/t3400-rebase.sh
+++ b/t/t3400-rebase.sh
@@ -255,4 +255,26 @@ test_expect_success 'rebase commit with an ancient timestamp' '
        grep "author .* 34567 +0600$" actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'rebase with "From " line in commit message' '
+       git checkout -b preserve-from master~1 &&
+       cat >From_.msg <<EOF &&
+Somebody embedded an mbox in a commit message
+
+This is from so-and-so:
+
+From a@b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: John Doe <nobody@example.com>
+Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000
+Subject: not this message
+
+something
+EOF
+       >From_ &&
+       git add From_ &&
+       git commit -F From_.msg &&
+       git rebase master &&
+       git log -1 --pretty=format:%B >out &&
+       test_cmp From_.msg out
+'
+
 test_done