Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 09:30:32AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- > > It might be worth mentioning why this conversion is pulled out from the > others (because its "default" case is "do not touch the pointer"). I am not sure what you mean by "pulled out from the others". I did not intend to keep these 3 additional patches permanently; rather, I did them to help Christian's rerolling the series, and I do not think this one should be separate from other ones that use the _default() variant when that happens.