From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 01:36:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Start of a journey: drop NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS
Message-ID: <xmqq7f20f3a8.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170501190719.10669-1-sbeller@google.com>

Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:

> This applies to origin/master.
>
> For better readability and understandability for newcomers it is a good idea
> to not offer 2 APIs doing the same thing with on being the #define of the other.
>
> In the long run we may want to drop the macros guarded by
> NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS. This converts a couple of them.

Why?  Why should we keep typing &the_index, when most of the time we
are given _the_ index and working on it?