Am 02.02.2018 um 15:34 schrieb SZEDER Gábor: > On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 7:56 PM, René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> wrote: >> 353d84c537 (coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") >> more precise) added a check to avoid transforming calls with format >> strings which contain percent signs, as that would change the result. >> It uses embedded Python code for that. Simplify this rule by using the >> regular expression matching operator instead. >> >> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> >> --- >> Inspired by the Coccinelle package in Debian experimental, which lost >> support for Python for some reason. Tested only with that version >> (1.0.6.deb-3) and Debian testing's 1.0.4.deb-3+b3. > > FWIW, it appears to be working fine with Coccinelle version > 1.0.0~rc19.deb-3 running on Travis CI. > Applied it on top of 'rs/strbuf-cocci-workaround' currently at cd9a4b6d9 > (cocci: use format keyword instead of a literal string, 2018-01-19) > along with an other patch to show the resulting suggestions in > '.../*.cocci.patch' files, and the results look fine: > > https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/336573242#L1466 > > and are the same as without this patch: > > https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/336257153#L1466 It's good to hear that it doesn't error out, but there is no code in master that would trigger a good or bad transformation. It should propose a patch for calls like this: strbuf_addf(sb, "just a string, better use strbuf_addstr"); ... but leave those examples here alone: strbuf_addf(sb, "200%% more percent signs"); strbuf_addf(sb, "error: %m"); René