This obsoletes id:1360374019-20988-1-git-send-email-david@tethera.net This less broken than the last version ;). I've used these patches for a few days without ill effects. The first two patches use batch-tagging, which should have some speedup. The includes fixes for the issue about quoting that Tomi raised. The second two patches are a style improvement and a bug fix for a bug that probably not many people hit.