Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Start of a journey: drop NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2017 18:36:31 -0700

Stefan Beller <[email-masked]> writes:

> This applies to origin/master.
>
> For better readability and understandability for newcomers it is a good idea
> to not offer 2 APIs doing the same thing with on being the #define of the other.
>
> In the long run we may want to drop the macros guarded by
> NO_THE_INDEX_COMPATIBILITY_MACROS. This converts a couple of them.

Why?  Why should we keep typing &the_index, when most of the time we
are given _the_ index and working on it?