>Hashing of the message contents really helps make git not rely as much
>on the semantics of file names, and this is where I thought that git's
>approach might be most interesting.

Right, but think about this: with nmh, the semantics of the filenames
IS the important part.

>Beyond that, email messages are generally large (compared to calendar
>entries, anyway) collections of text. Changes to messages mostly involve
>small deltas to metadata.

Note that messages in IMAP are immutable; we don't have to worry about
changes to a message.

--Ken

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