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

Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] 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.