Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] introduce "format" date-mode

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:22:18 -0700

Jeff King <[email-masked]> writes:

>> 	strbuf_addf(&f, "%s ", fmt);
>
> Basically I was trying to avoid making any assumptions about exactly how
> strftime works. But presumably "stick a space in the format" is a
> universally reasonable thing to do. It's a hack, but it's contained to
> the function.

Why can't I shake this feeling that (" %s", fmt), i.e. prepend not
append, is the safer thing to do than to append?