On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Even though it is silly not to rely on already well established > conventions such as X-Mailing-List and List-ID but instead to waste > precious real estate at the initial part of the Subject in this century > merely for list identification purposes, this change regresses the end > result. Note that at least for the security list, it's not about "list identification", but simply to make the thing stand out in peoples mailboxes. But I do agree that it's not perfect, and I would like to make the bracket removal stricter. Andreas' patch was a step in that direction. But different users would probably have different requirements. For example, from a strictly git tools perspective, it's not even "any square bracket", and some people might want to remove only a single bracketed level, and only if it starts with "[PATCH". For other uses, we want to remove the "Re: " at the beginning (and some crazy email readers use language/locale-specific versions like "Vs:" for that), and examples like the above "[Security]" from the security list. So maybe the right solution is to allow people to configure this somehow. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html