Re: [PATCH] setup: support GIT_IGNORE_INSECURE_OWNER environment variable

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 01:40:18PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Thanks.  I wonder if there is a way to add this kind of pieces of
> > information to old commits and discussion threads around it after
> > the fact, and if it helps us (like Dscho who wondered why we decided
> > if it is a good idea, and more importantly if we still think it is a
> > good idea and why).
> > 
> >     ... and then goes back to see the original discussion thread,
> >     with the "bright idea" that I could just follow up on 14-year
> >     old discussion thread.  Only to find that despite what Dscho
> >     said, the commit message does say why it is desirable ("to
> >     imitate remote transport well") already.
> > 
> > So, I guess we do not really need to do such a post-annotation in
> > this particular case, but I think after seeing somebody posting a
> > message like the one I am responding to and finding it helpful, it
> > would be helpful if somebody can post a message pointing at it as a
> > response to the old thread that wants a post-annotation.

> Usually I find myself digging backwards in history, following links to
> old threads. But I guess what you are asking is how would somebody
> looking at old thread XYZ know that it was mentioned much later.
> 
> And I think the solution is for the new thread to just link to the old
> one by message-id (i.e., the usual lore links). And then searching for
> that message-id in the archive could turn up the later threads. I don't
> know how well public-inbox handles that in practice, though:
> 
>   1. Do things that look like message-ids get searched for in message
>      bodies? I'd think so if you don't explicitly say "this is a message
>      id".

>   2. It's really a multi-element search. If I have a thread with 10
>      messages, I'd really like to know of more recent threads that
>      linked back to _any_ message in the thread. You'd probably have to
>      feed them all manually. But in theory indexing could generate some
>      kind of bidirectional "related" link.

> I don't often do this with message-ids, but I frequently do find other
> references by doing a full-text search for commit hashes, or phrases
> from commit subjects. I usually do so with my local notmuch archive,
> rather than using public-inbox, but I think you should be able to do
> phrase searches there, too.