From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:52:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] builtin-branch: improve output when displaying remote branches
Message-ID: <7veiy2eptb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <76718490902122245q6f530bb5sc85a65e065966eda@mail.gmail.com>

Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> writes:

> This strikes me as premature optimization.

It is *not* an optimization.  It is reduction of code duplication to
improve maintainability before copy-and-paste gets out of hand.

The proper adjective for it is not "premature" but "preemptive".