Re: "gmane:" search undocumented on lore.kernel.org/git

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Dec 30, 2019, 23:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20191230231620.lcydd5egk4ma2rph@chatter.i7.local>
In-Reply-To: <20191230231350.GA16499@dcvr>

On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 11:13:50PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:

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> Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I just noticed that the help page on lore.kernel.org/git does not mention the possibility of searching for messages using Gmane id’s, as the public-inbox.org/git help page does. 
> > 
> > The search works though, it’s just undocumented, so I thought I’d share; I don’t know how much control we have on the lore.kernel.org public-inbox installation. 
> 
> +Cc Konstantin who runs lore.
> 
> Unless you're getting load-balanced to differently configured
> instances, I think it's luck that the "gmane:" queries you tried
> work.
> 
> gmane:  doesn't seem configured on lore at all.  Compare:
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/git/?q=gmane:1
> 	https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:1

I haven't configured them because I don't understand what benefit they serve. If someone can explain their benefit, I can consider adding this to the roadmap.

-K