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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pretty-formats.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 4 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt index 53a9168ba7..1686a54d22 100644 --- a/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt +++ b/Documentation/pretty-formats.txt @@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ The placeholders are: - '%C(...)': color specification, as described in color.branch.* config option - '%m': left, right or boundary mark - '%n': newline +- '%%': a raw '%' - '%x00': print a byte from a hex code - '%w([<w>[,<i1>[,<i2>]]])': switch line wrapping, like the -w option of linkgit:git-shortlog[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index a0e0f850f8..3b1da10f26 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ character if the letter `n` appears after a `%`. The function returns the length of the placeholder recognized and `strbuf_expand()` skips over it. + +The format `%%` is automatically expanded to a single `%` as a quoting +mechanism; callers do not need to handle the `%` placeholder themselves, +and the callback function will not be invoked for this placeholder. ++ All other characters (non-percent and not skipped ones) are copied verbatim to the strbuf. If the callback returned zero, meaning that the placeholder is unknown, then the percent sign is copied, too. |