From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:52:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display author and committer after "git commit"
Message-ID: <20100112145212.GA11053@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100112142405.GA13369@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:24:06AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

>   - It tries to quote any percents in the author name, but user formats
>     don't actually have a quoting mechanism! Probably we should
>     interpret "%%" as "%". Even though it's a behavior change, I
>     consider the current behavior buggy.

Actually, on second thought, they do: you can use %x25 to get the same
effect. I still think we should support '%%' as a more readable and
expected alternative (this is how printf works, and daemon.c's expansion
already does this).

-Peff