On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:25:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Silly question: Is there a natural language that uses percent signs > >> as letters or e.g. instead of commas? :) > > > > I don't know, but if they do, they'd better get used to escaping them. > > :) > > I do not know either, but I am curious where that question comes > from. I stared at this patch for a few minutes but couldn't guess. My initial thought is that the next step after picking this low-hanging fruit would be to find cases where the strings do not contain "%", and thus we do not have to care about formatting. But a case like: strbuf_addf(&buf, "this does not have any percents!", foo); is simply broken (albeit in a way that we ignore foo, so it's just ugly code, not a real bug). So I dunno. I too am curious. -Peff