From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 19:00:56 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/2] status -s: obey color.status
Message-ID: <7vy6lt6rh3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B0EA06A.1050101@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> Michael J Gruber schrieb:
>> * Is there any policy regarding use of putchar/puts vs. printf?
>
> If the printed string contains color escapes that should be obeyed, you
> can use only fputs, printf, and fprintf. You should not use puts or putchar.

This msysgit-imposed restriction is something even I do not remember
offhand.  Could you please document it somewhere in a file any developer
would get by checking out the 'master' branch of git.git?