Re: Mail thread references in commits

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Mail thread references in commits
Date: 2016-11-20 15:26:53
Message-ID: CABUevEyQ0hrdkZ8OaCTPBhHWr2Ye37tRX21rF-z_NhnT-SyTBA@mail.gmail.com
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On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:

>
>
> On 11/20/2016 06:55 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> We can replace the website part with a http://postgr.es/m/<messageid>
>> which will make it a bit shorter and still as easy to generate from the
>> client side and to search off. It'd be trivial to do, and since there is no
>> state held at the forwarder for it, it wouldn't introduce a risk of "losing
>> the forwards at some point in the future". But the bulk of the URL, being
>> the messageid, would remain.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> That's 19 extra characters, less 2 if you remove the <> delimiters. I
> think the extra usability makes the slight increase in ugliness worth it.
> Can we just agree or disagree on this?
>

I personally don't really care either way, just wanted people to know that
this option is available. (And it would be without the <> characters, of
course). I doubt it's worth the trouble to do it if we're keeping the full
msgid.

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Magnus Hagander
Me: http://www.hagander.net/
Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/

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