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Re: A note from the maintainer

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 8, 2008, 10:03 UTC
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:
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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> * IRC and Mailing list
>  
>> When you point at a message in a mailing list archive, using
>> gmane is often the easiest to follow by readers, like this:
>> 
>>         http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/27/focus=217
>> 
>> as it also allows people who subscribe to the mailing list as
>> gmane newsgroup to "jump to" the article.
>
> Isn't it better to give Message-ID (perhaps with addition to
> some archive URLs)?
Then please do so.  I have no problem with that.

But I am talking about practices of people who give pointer to list archives as URL in this section, and I am just sick and tired of seeing references to marc.info that does not give you useful threaded interface.

> What about "offcuts" branch?

What about it? It is not that relevant to people new to the community.

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