From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:03:21 GMT Subject: Re: A note from the maintainer Message-ID: <7v8x30vdli.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Jakub Narebski writes: > Junio C Hamano 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.