Re: Mail thread references in commits

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:38 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> > I love seeing references to email threads in commit messages. It would
>> > make them a lot friendlier though if a full http URL were included
>> > instead of just a Message-ID,
>>
>> I've intentionally not done that, because it does not seem very
>> future-proof. The message ids will hopefully be unique indefinitely far
>> into the future, but the location of our archives could move.
>
> It won't. We have far too many in the archives to risk breaking them.
> In fact, we (Magnus) went great lengths to implement a system so that
> old-style PHP links (of which we have a bunch in very old archives,
> including in commit messages) continue to work to this day. We're far
> too invested in the system now, because of how successful it has proved
> to be.

Right - we go out of our way to ensure we don't break URLs. That's why
anoncvs.postgresql.org is still actively maintained for example.

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