On 13 October 2010 20:23, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/13/2010 08:36 AM, Erik Faye-Lund wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Jonathan Nieder<jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> >> Âwrote: >>> >>> Erik Faye-Lund wrote: >>> >>>> The string gets inlined into itself (with a limit of 100 expansions) >>>> leading to string like "foo %1 bar" becoming "foo foo foo ... foo %1 >>>> bar bar bar ... bar". With our expansion, it becomes "foo % 1 bar" >>>> instead. >>> >>> Ah, ok. ÂSounds like there is no need to worry about requests for "%%1" >>> etc. ÂThanks for explaining. >>> >> Actually, %%1 is a bit of a tricky one. It seems that %%1 is used to >> escape %1 on Windows 7, but not on earlier Windows version. I did test >> this on Vista an XP earlier, but I'll re-test again later and report >> back, in case my earlier tests were flawed. > > If that worked universally, escaping '%1' to '%%1' certainly would be nicer > than '% 1'. (More generally, escape '%n' to '%%n', where n is a number.) It > also would simplify the log message. > >> Can %%1 occur in an IPv6 address at all? If not, I'm tempted to not >> handle it (unless it turns out I was wrong about %%1-escaping on Vista >> and XP). > > According to sources I have studied, %%1 would be unlikely (or perhaps > invalid) in IPv6 addresses. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Link-local_addresses_and_zone_indices Not on windows. Try ipconfig: Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::c9fb:7840:66f5:b2e9%13 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::20c:76ff:fe1e:e00%11 and so on. Its an interface fragment or something. However - we really don't care. You can just substitute these to spaces and no-one will care. Keep it simple. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html