On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 05:42:47PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > This is also why I don't care for [PATCH] tags at the > start of subject lines - they take away space for saying what the patch is > about, and on gcc-patches we can expect things are patches, [PATCH] > doesn't add useful information.)
Yeah, but various tools automatically add them (and v2 and 1/4 etc. tags, which are extremely useful), so it would be very inconvenient to outlaw them. Oh, and it is what all of the rest of the world uses, I don't even consciously *see* the standard stuff anymore, it's only when people get creative ;-) Segher