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Re: [PATCH] use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf, part 2

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-15 20:01:30

Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)

René Scharfe [off-list ref] writes:
Take this for example:

-			strbuf_addf(&o->obuf, _("(bad commit)\n"));
+			strbuf_addstr(&o->obuf, _("(bad commit)\n"));

If there's a language that uses percent signs instead of parens or as
regular letters, then they need to be escaped in the translated string
before, but not after the patch.  As I wrote: silly.
Ahh, OK, so "This use of addf only has format part and nothing else,
hence the format part can be taken as-is" which is the Coccinelle rule
used to produce this patch is incomplete and always needs manual
inspection, in case the format part wanted to give a literal % in
the output.  E.g. it is a bug to convert this

	strbuf_addf(&buf, _("this is 100%% wrong!"));

to

	strbuf_addstr(&buf, _("this is 100%% wrong!"));

Thanks for clarification.  Perhaps the strbuf.cocci rule file can
have some comment to warn the person who builds *.patch file to look
for % in E2, or something?
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