On Tue, Jul 22, 2025, at 00:46, Junio C Hamano wrote: > The comment was poorly phrased and it wasn't clear what it wanted to > say. Strongly discourage this broken pattern to be copied and > pasted to other code paths. Why “was”? Shouldn’t it be “The comment is poorly phrased ... so [change it]”. According to SubmittingPatches, “present-tense”. /nitpick