Jonathan Nieder [off-list ref] writes:
Git seems to be inconsistent about this. Documentation/CodingGuidelines
says
- When there are multiple arms to a conditional and some of them
require braces, enclose even a single line block in braces for
consistency. E.g.:
so you have some cover from there (and it matches what I'm used to,
too). :)
Yup, it took us for quite some time before we settled on that rule
and wrote it down, so there are some lines that predate it *and*
have survived.