From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:27:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] git-branch: add --track and --no-track options
Message-ID: <7v3b4jxtx8.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45EC8959.1090303@lu.unisi.ch>

Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@lu.unisi.ch> writes:

> Actually ISTR that %n is not counted in the return value and that's why I wrote the code this way.

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.