Re: A note from the maintainer

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 12, 2016, 22:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20160812224255.GA16250@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq1t1twymf.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> For those who prefer to read it over NNTP:
> 
> 	nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git
> 
> is still available.  An alternative
> 
>         nntp://news.public-inbox.org/inbox.comp.version-control.git
> 
> will become usable once it catches up with old messages.

Mostly caught up, I injected 33 more today which were cross-posted (which tripped up some of my anti-spam rules) or simply missed by gmane.

There may be more in some personal archives gmane doesn't have...

I've also added NNTP links (including gmane) to the footer in public-inbox.org/git

> message ID is often the most robust (if not very friendly) way to do
> so, like this:
> 
> 	http://public-inbox.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440.7211@ppc970.osdl.org

Some of the generated links have %40 in them which is the URI escape for '@'. I'll make a change to keep the '@' unescaped to lessen confusion.

Due to the use of SQLite as a stable store for NNTP article numbers; public-inbox can also do partial matching (up to 100 results, currently) to help correct legitimate mistakes; but I wouldn't rely on it too much:

	public-inbox.org/git/Pine.LNX.4.58.0504150753440