On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > *1* A malformed formatting request (e.g. %(if) that is not closed) > cannot be satisified but that is true for all refs and is > outside of the scope of this discussion. The command should die > and I think it already does. Agreed. I was only making the case that if it could "possibly" be satisfied, then we shouldn't die. Thanks, Jake