From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:18:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] difftool.c: mark a file-local symbol with static
Message-ID: <20161130231848.v5ge6otytim2t6d2@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <3e6a6685-19ec-4536-4a5f-3a56e30fb530@ramsayjones.plus.com>

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 10:37:40PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote:

> > Anyway. Those are all options, but I don't think there is any problem
> > with sticking with warning("") for now. It is not the first part of the
> > code that tickles the format-zero-length warning.
> 
> Hmm, well I have been building git for some time with the warning
> enabled without problem.
> 
> [I can see a few examples of 'status_printf_ln(s, c, "%s", "");' in
> git-grep output, so ...]
> 
> I am not suggesting any change here, and was just curious why it
> seemed to be unnecessary now (I knew it was necessary at one time).

I forgot, we ended up reversing course later and silencing them:

  http://public-inbox.org/git/20140505052117.GC6569@sigill.intra.peff.net/

By the rationale of that conversation, we should be doing:

  warning("%s", "");

here.

-Peff