Re: splitting off shell test framework

From: Adam Spiers <git@adamspiers.org>
Date: Aug 23, 2017, 23:23 UTC
Message-ID: <CAOkDyE9pWFLRQ0cZO03bc3Q9r=AzLHMUQ0kxb4bdsTJowcLz=g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170823154747.vxtyy2v2ofkxwrkx@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On 23 August 2017 at 16:47, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 02:46:30PM +0100, Adam Spiers wrote:
>> >> Done at least once already:
>> >>
>> >> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/201591
>> [...]
>>
>> but sadly since then gmane has shuffled off its mortal coil and I can't
>> remember / find what this URL referred to.  Please could someone
>> point me at a working link?
>
> Try:
>
>   https://public-inbox.org/git/?q=gmane:201591
>
> Public-inbox uses message-ids as its primary key, but keeps a static
> mapping of gmane articles to message-ids. But the corpus of gmane ids
> isn't growing anymore, and public-inbox URLs can be trivially converted
> to other systems which index on the message id[1].

Thanks a lot; that's super helpful!

> [1] I actually keep a local archive and convert public-inbox URLs into
>     local requests that I view in mutt.

Sounds like a neat trick - any scripts / config worth sharing?