On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 09:50:42PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Hmph. So that's _probably_ OK, but I have to wonder if this is going too > far. The resulting code is not that much shorter, and IMHO is actually a > little more complicated, because of this hack and the extra util bit. Thanks for a careful analysis, as always. "Additional complexity" and "slower" are both usually not worth it in isolation, but it's definitely difficult to advocate for doing both at the same time ;-). Let's drop this patch and let the `--group=trailer` bits continue to benefit from your optimizations. Thanks, Taylor