Re: [PATCH 1/4] refspec: trivial cleanup

> > I know your question was rhetorical, but a good reason not to do so in
> > general is that the existing pattern reveals some intent. E.g., it
> > sometimes is the case that with the _current_ code we can return early
> > from a function or loop, but that is not inherent to what the code is
> > doing, and the early return or continue makes it harder to understand
> > that.
> 
> Yes, but even in those cases it arguably helps readability.
> 
> Anyway, I prefer to argue on the tangible rather than hypotheticals
> because the hypotheticals are infinite.
>
> In this particular case there's no particular reason to just continue
> if there's no prefix.