Re: References to old messages

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 21, 2016, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqoa04hnsq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <2284357.IWoC4bU66L@thunderbird>

Stephen & Linda Smith <ischis2@cox.net> writes:

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> I want to pick up work  on a patch that I was working on previously.  
>
> I had been told to reference (i.e. footnote) a gmane URL.  With that service 
> no longer being being online, what is the preferred method footnoting?
>
> sps

The NNTP interface of GMane is still working, so referring to e.g. $gmane/286483 _could_ identify a message uniquely, but people who do not usually talk NNTP to GMane won't be able to find the message with 286483, so it is not very nice.

The same message is referred to like this around here these days:

https://public-inbox.org/git/1455685597-22445-1-git-send-email-ischis2@cox.net/

The point is people know its message id is <14556855...@cox.net> and refer to other archives with it, even when public-inbox.org is not available.