From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:23:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-branch: add --track and --no-track options
Message-ID: <45ED16EE.8020303@lu.unisi.ch>
In-Reply-To: <7v3b4jxtx8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>


> Yes, that is correct.  Some C lib implementations seem to count
> %n and others don't so it is not reliable.  That is one of the
> reasons I personally have stayed away from fancier sscanf()
> constructs, both inside and outside git project.

So, should I remove it?  As I said, the code using sscanf is already the second try, and the first was utterly illegible, so I'd rather stay with it.

Paolo