On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 11:25:44AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > macros). That could change eventually of course, but it's not like > > switching back to a stand-alone at that point is a big deal. > > If it is not a big deal, then I am fine, but at the same time it > becomes unclear why we can say "we can use X and Y niceties only > available for builtins". I may have oversold those niceties in the commit message. It is really only saving us two lines of code, and it wouldn't be a big deal to revert it (in fact, if you're uncomfortable with that, we could leave the function otherwise intact). -Peff