Re: Thank you for public-inbox!

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 30, 2018, 08:19 UTC
Message-ID: <20180830081945.GB10224@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180830072049.dgsjn3537xzo6qcm@dcvr>

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 07:20:49AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

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> > At the very least, I think if we plan to reference without an http URL
> > that we would use something like URI-ish, like <mid:ABC@XYZ>. That gives
> > tools a better chance to say "OK, I know how to find message-ids"
> > (though I still think that it's much less helpful out of the box
> > compared to an http URL).
> 
> That would be awesome if somelike like <mid:ABC@XYZ> could be a
> standard and adopted (likewise with <git:$object_id>).
> 
> I haven't checked, but are there existing/similar RFCs?
> Surely somebody has tried to get <git:$object_id>
> adopted by now, right?

There's https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2392. They even call it "mid:".  :)

I don't know of any git URI scheme, though it's similar in spirit to magnet: links. Those are a bit verbose, though, because they're really a meta-format for a bunch of different content-addressable schemes.

-Peff