On Wed, Oct 15, 2025 at 12:15:09PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And if people who have real workflows that use Link tags actually were
> to add them consciously, I wouldn't hate them so much.

Where people are adding the tags as a matter of routine it's commonly
because others find it useful to have them rather than for their own
direct benefit, the workflow is someone else's.  People come along later
and want to follow the trail back from git to the mailing list - for
example my main use case is that I've got a bisected test failure and
want to tell someone who might care about it while also checking to see
if the issue has already been reported.  Sure, dig will work for that
most of the time but it's heuristic based and it's something people have
to install.  

I happen to already have tip of tree b4 to hand anyway for other reasons
so it's a relatively small speedbump for me personally but it's hard to
get enthusiastic about.