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On 2019-05-09 11:51 AM, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> I'm still not sure I see the value of the extra header proposed here.
> I'd appreciate an explanation of how you think it would be used, Drew.

I'm not just thinking about your run of the mill mail reader, but also
mail readers which are aware of git and could use it to provide
git-specific features for browsing patchsets. Distinguishing it from the
mecahnism used for normal conversation allows us to have fewer
heuristics in such software.