From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: "mailinfo: Remove only one set of square brackets" considered harmful Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:31:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <7vljmpegy4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Andreas Ericsson , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 16 00:32:39 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MRD1h-0003JD-46 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:32:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755855AbZGOWca (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:32:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755848AbZGOWca (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:32:30 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60533 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755716AbZGOWc3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:32:29 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [140.211.169.55]) by smtp1.linux-foundation.org (8.14.2/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n6FMVjB2025580 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:31:46 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id n6FMViZU005411; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:31:44 -0700 X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <7vljmpegy4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.417 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,OSDL_NIGERIAN_ESTATE X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4-osdl_revision__1.47__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.188 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 140.211.169.13 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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