On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 05:48:57PM +0000, Michael Matz wrote: > On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > > > The idea is that the [...] part is NOT part of the commit, only part of > > the email. > > I understand that, but the subject line of this thread says "e-mail > subject lines", so I thought we were talking about, well, exactly that; > and I see no value of these tags in e-mails either.
In email, they do carry information that is useful there, the distinction whether a patch has been committed already and doesn't need review from others, or whether it is a patch intended for patch review, or just a RFC patch that is not yet ready for review, but submitter is looking for some feedback. Jakub