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I do encourage people to > use this more than just a linear `git am` for series, for a number of reasons: For me, as a subsystem downstream person the 'mindless' patch.msgid.link saves me time when I need to report a regression, or validate which version of a patch was pulled from a list when curating a long-running topic in a staging tree. I do make sure to put actual discussion references outside the patch.msgid.link namespace and hope that others continue to use this helpful breadcrumb.