Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 02/15] mingw: implement syslog

From: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:37:46 -0500

Erik Faye-Lund wrote:

> The string gets inlined into itself (with a limit of 100 expansions)
> leading to string like "foo %1 bar" becoming "foo foo foo ... foo %1
> bar bar bar ... bar". With our expansion, it becomes "foo % 1 bar"
> instead.

Ah, ok.  Sounds like there is no need to worry about requests for "%%1"
etc.  Thanks for explaining.

Maybe the symptoms and cases not covered (%2, %%1) would be worth
mentioning in the log message?