Jeff King authored Jun 30, 2015 and Junio C Hamano committed Jul 20, 2015

The return value of strftime is poorly designed; when it
returns 0, the caller cannot tell if the buffer was not
large enough, or if the output was actually 0 bytes. In the
original implementation of strbuf_addftime, we simply punted
and guessed that our 128-byte hint would be large enough.

We can do better, though, if we're willing to treat strftime
like less of a black box. We can munge the incoming format
to make sure that it never produces 0-length output, and
then "fix" the resulting output.  That lets us reliably grow
the buffer based on strftime's return value.

Clever-idea-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>