From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:53:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] mingw: let's use gettext with MSYS2
Message-ID: <xmqq8u3dh4nv.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601251714380.2964@virtualbox>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

>> > - we sidestep the infamous "BUG: your vsnprintf is broken (returned -1)"
>> >   message when running "git init" (which otherwise prevents the entire
>> >   test suite from running)
>> 
>> It is unclear to me how gettext is related to use of vsnprintf().
>
> Including libintl.h overrides vsnprintf() with the libintl_vsnprintf()
> drop-in replacement that does return the expected value.

Ah, that makes sense.

>
> I updated the commit message (will be part of v2):
>
> 	https://github.com/dscho/git/commit/4473801e

Thanks.