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Subject: Re: Patch Series v3 for "use the $( ... ) construct for command substitution"
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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.