Re: Mail thread references in commits

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>,Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>,Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>,pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>,Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Subject: Re: Mail thread references in commits
Date: 2016-11-19 02:05:43
Message-ID: 4CDE3F5C-E4CB-40F2-B34B-F453002330D0@anarazel.de
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On November 18, 2016 1:06:18 PM PST, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
>wrote:
>>> Why not hash the URL? Something like:
>>> Http://postgresopen.org/archive/743257890976432
>
>> I suggested that upthread...
>
>Don't like the hashing idea because that would be useless for
>searching,
>eg, one's own local mail archives. Also, if you are looking at a
>message
>in your own mail store when composing a commit message (which I
>generally
>am, don't know about other committers) how are you going to get the
>hash?
>I think it's important to have the message-ID in cleartext.

I do ask of that offline or at least locally. So I won't use something that makes that uncomfortable.

Andres
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