Re: Template for commit messages

Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2016-02-01 12:56:21 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > Let's just assume that we can fix that part. As in, we can expose either an
> > internal db id or a short hash or something, from the archives server. We
> > could then have that visible/linkable directly on the archives page, and
> > one could copy/paste that link into the commit message. That way we can
> > avoid the long messageids.
>
> Raw messageids have the big big advantage that you can get them locally
> in your mailreader, and you can dereference them locally... I type
> esc-X id:$id<enter> and 20ms later I have the whole thread open.

Yes, +1 on that.

> Maybe I just travel too much, but travel time is often long and
> uninterrupted and thus pretty nice to work on patches.

I don't travel as much as you or Magnus do (!) but I do offline work a
lot, so I appreciate full message-ids.

> I don't really see the problem, even with gmail style messageids
> Discussion: CABUevEz_UJA0ddrW7apjh3Nm4p0KghwOPm0WPW4Mh_gT2-nRJw(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com
> isn't that bad.

Yes, yes, I prefer to use the full URL because then a machine can tell
whether it's an email address and not a message-id, which is useful for
mangling addresses while at the same time not mangling message-ids. But
I'm not going to force that on anybody.

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