From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:13:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-path-utils: use xsnprintf in favor of strcpy
Message-ID: <20160208231332.GA23638@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20160208230726.GB3487@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 11:07:26PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > Repost of <20160114202608.GA8806@sigill.intra.peff.net> from a few weeks
> > ago (sorry, gmane is down so I can't generate a link).
> 
> I prefer we use links derived from Message-IDs anyways.  This
> prevents reliance on gmane article numbers being a central point
> of failure:
> 
> http://marc.info/?i=$MESSAGE_ID
> http://mid.gmane.org/$MESSAGE_ID
> http://mid.mail-archive.com/$MESSAGE_ID

I actually do, too. I keep a local archive of the whole list, and I have
a script that hits gmane to convert their article ids into message-ids.
When gmane is down I can still use my archive, but I can't resolve
anybody's article mentions. :)

I mostly use gmane links because people are used to them, though (I also
don't think there's a way using message-ids to point to a whole thread
with an article highlighted, though of course readers can get their by
clicking through).

> But the MESSAGE_ID above seems missing from mail-archive.com, in this case.

It seems to have a giant hole in git@vger messages between 2016-01-07
and 2016-01-20, which covers the referenced message (which was on the
14th).

-Peff