Re: Mail thread references in commits

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On November 17, 2016 1:02:38 PM PST, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>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.e. instead of <foo1234(at)bar(dot)com> put
>><https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/foo1234@bar.com>. I know this is
>>
>>a bit more trouble. but not that much, and it would make it very easy
>>to
>>follow with just a mouse click.
>
> They're really hard to read though, because lines with e.g. gmail message IDs get very long even without that prefix. Do you look at these in the e-mail or gitweb?

Yeah. I really hate having commit messages that are more than 70-75
characters wide, and a message-ID takes you well above that. I wish
we had something like archives.postgresql.org/sha/5bcd5142 instead of
basing everything off the message-ID.

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