Re: Mail thread references in commits

Why not hash the URL? Something like:

Http://postgresopen.org/archive/743257890976432

Where the hash is derived from the message if?

On Nov 17, 2016 17:40, "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.
>
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