documentcloud/backbone — pull request #2029 by braddunbar (2012-12-26 22:38:09+00:00)
Title: View#make returns $el for direct use by View#setElement.

In this way, `View#setElement` can just reuse the instance of `Backbone.$`. This is a breaking change, but a rather small one since, to my knowledge, `View#make` is not heavily relied upon.