From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 19:27:48 GMT
Subject: Re: Patch Series v3 for "use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution"
Message-ID: <xmqqa9c0q4i3.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140404181215.GJ6851@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> 140 patches worth of churn once every couple of years is not terrible,
> but I really don't want to see this becoming a pattern. :/

Likewise.

> And I don't see how the upside in this example warrants it.

Paraphrasing http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/943020

It'd be good if we don't _add_ such things to the tree.

But IMO it's such a minor thing that once it _is_ in the tree, it's
not really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up.