Re: [PATCH] Display author and committer after "git commit"

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:24:06AM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

  - It tries to quote any percents in the author name, but user formats
    don't actually have a quoting mechanism! Probably we should
    interpret "%%" as "%". Even though it's a behavior change, I
    consider the current behavior buggy.

Actually, on second thought, they do: you can use %x25 to get the same
effect. I still think we should support '%%' as a more readable and
expected alternative (this is how printf works, and daemon.c's expansion
already does this).

-Peff